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That’s a terrible example since that’s a moonshot project. Moonshot projects are always a money pit, you’re trying to figure something out no one else is doing.
by whatsmyusername 6y ago
That’s a terrible example since that’s a moonshot project. Moonshot projects are always a money pit, you’re trying to figure something out no one else is doing.
- tomjakubowski 6y agoIs it really a moonshot? What's the innovation in building a high speed rail connecting two major cities ~400 miles apart? I guess no one has done this in California before.
- Nihilartikel 6y agoWas it a moon shot when China or any other country with comparably sized high speed rail systems did it? A quick google shows China's existing high speed rail system at 23,600 mi, in comparison to the total of 800 miles planned for CA. I don't disagree that it was a moon shot, but it was not a moon shot for reasons of technical difficulty or novelty, but for the reason that it is now so systemically difficult to competently implement any large scale infrastructure in America, and California particularly. I won't comment on what the reasons for that might be. My interpretation is that this kind of decay in capability is that the author is driving at.
- whatsmyusername 6y agoChina can throw an entire ethnic group in concentration camps and starve them to death on video. Their subjects and the world shrug. Do you really want to use them as an argument for "Just make rail 4Head?"
- foobiekr 6y agoit's only a moonshot in grifting terms.
- mdorazio 6y agoHow the hell is a high-speed rail that's not even as fast or as long as ones already in existence in many other countries around the world a moonshot?
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI can't agree. Tons of other countries do it. Hire good people from there. It was a travesty how terribly run that whole ordeal was. It should be taught as an example of how -not- to do a railway.