Indonesia's Whoosh fast train has accommodated one million people: KCIC

redcalcium , 5 months ago

The ticket is ~$13, and it’ll turn a 2 hours drive through a toll road (or more if there’s a traffic jam, inside the toll road, which happen surprisingly often) that cost ~$7 for the toll alone into 40 minutes journey. So yeah, it’s no brainer to use instead of cars if you don’t need to carry too much stuff.

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago

Sure, but Hyperloop could have carried 10x more people at 1/10th the price and for less energy than it takes to flip a quarter. And we can do it today.

SomeoneSomewhere , 5 months ago

Not sure if sarcastic…

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago

Have things gotten that bad that you can’t tell if that was sarcastic?

Shit.

CarbonIceDragon , 5 months ago

Given that things like tone that are normally used to show sarcasm dont show through text, the only way if one doesnt explicitly state something to be sarcasm to tell if something written is sarcastic is if the statement seems so absurd or obviously wrong that nobody could seriously believe it. However, people have a seemingly limitless capacity to believe things that are factually untrue, and what is and is not absurd is to some extent in the eye of the beholder, so ultimately, one should not be surprised if one’s written sarcasm is taken seriously, if you dont include some kind of signifier to replace the cues normally given in speech.

n2burns , 5 months ago

Poe’s Law

pastermil , 5 months ago

Okay, where is this hyperloop?

SatanicNotMessianic , 5 months ago

The real Hyperloop is the scamming we do along the way.

pastermil , 5 months ago

The end.

TheGreenGolem , 5 months ago

They seriously named it Whoosh?

Dempf , 5 months ago

I love it.

Annoyed_Crabby , 5 months ago

Anytime there’s a disapproval of the name they can just whoosh them for missing the joke.

MarcoPOLO OP , 5 months ago

what’s wrong?

jwt , 5 months ago

Whoosh…