It's hilarious to think that Chinese high speed rail got its first shot in the arm when General Electric sold their locomotive division to China. US wasn't doing anything with it, so it probably made sense for the GE shareholders. I rode on a Chinese built high speed train in Laos, something I couldn't do in the US.
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I don't think people who don't travel outside western countries realize how quickly the west is being left behind technologically now.
And the arrogance about how any technology by China is doomed is jaw dropping.
The coming years are gonna be real hard for these people.
The ones that believe it like me will be murdered for it and the rest will call it AI propaganda cause most Americans have internalized and inability to think ~~critically~~ for themselves.
I've kind of written the west off at this point. The rest of humanity will move on without us.
Do what you can, and do what you can to stay safe. 🫂
Omg this is just amazing. I can just imagine some train ride that took like 30 min now raking like 5 or less! Awesome. It'll be amazing when this is finally implemented. I can see China being the first to achieve traveling at or beyond the speed of light some day, i know sounds make believe, but at this point if anyone can have any hope of pulling it off. It is these gods and goddesses in China!