Did those Women’s games tickets cost you around $100 like NBA tickets do? I somehow doubt it.

Will we have a future when the US comes to accept that the WNBA is not sustainable, has been unsustainable since its inception, and will continue to be unsustainable because the quality of the competition is just so poor? The only reason the WNBA still exists is because it’s being propped up by the NBA and its …

They don’t? get out of town! How did they manage that in a station that only cost $150 billion to build! It’s almost like NASA (and others) actually build things that are practically a perfect fit, with little to no variance between the design and the implementation, and handcrafted by some of the most talented people…

Almost definitely not.

All one of them in the past 20 years. You’re acting like we’re still in the times when 2-3 drivers were killed every year.

We went over two decades without a death in F1. Let’s not act like this is even a regular occurrence. Besides, many of the cockpit protection schemes actually might lead to it being more difficult to get out of the car in the case of an emergency, and cause death.

What if the next death in F1 is caused because a driver…

You know what? I thought about this some more too. You’re right. I don’t think the tube would collapse.

Umm... no. That vessel is is designed to withstand the pressures of a vacuum. They created a vacuum within the vessel and then added a force to outside of the container to try and break structural integrity of the vessel, and cause a sudden loss of vacuum. When that happened, it crumpled like a beer can.

So yes, the…

Good fucking luck with that one. That’s like suggesting you design a car to withstand a bridge falling on it, except that car is going 700 mph and needs to be as lightweight as possible. That shouldn’t be expensive at all. Never mind that even if you could, you would have to replace the entire tube line in the event…

In order to achieve the speeds they’re claiming it needs to be closer to a perfect vacuum than 99% of things we currently call “vacuums”. So yes.

I don’t think you understand what happens if the vacuum is suddenly lost. The whole length of the former vacuum crumples in on itself. Like this:

So now there can’t be any variance between the capsule and tube, it has to be a perfect fit. Best of luck with that.

If you think those results have been positive, you have been kidding yourself. We already know objects in a vacuum aren’t impeded by air when traveling. What these companies are doing is putting on a public display to get more money from people like you, and nothing more.

It’s going to be far more expensive and longer to build when you have to maintain a vacuum for hundreds of miles. Never mind the maintenance cost of actually making sure that the structural integrity of the vacuum tube is 100% at all times. You might think that’s ridiculous but, consider that if the vacuum is lost,…

Smaller to bore might not actually be meaningfully easier. Sure it might mean say, 10% less time and effort boring the tunnel. But, it might actually require more time and effort creating the tunnel in such a way that it can form and maintain a vacuum, and might require additional infrastructure both around the tunnel…

How do you know a hyperloop tunnel would be a lot smaller, also, you do realize a hyperloop tunnel would have to be able to create and maintain a vacuum, right? There’s no reason to expect it would be cheaper to make a hyperloop tunnel vs a HSR tunnel.

If by “variation” you mean “high speed rail that makes no use of a vacuum”, you’d be correct.

But that would be hypocritical would it not?

Or.... Full Metal Alchemist is essentially set in the Germany/France area of Europe, making these characters - you guessed it - white!

There’s plenty of white actors in Japan if you care to look. Stop making excuses.

I can’t wait for all of those people to be complaining of “yellow washing” since these are clearly white european characters played by non-white actors.

Ohh wait. Double standards. How could I forget?