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I want to ride on the Snow Piercer train.

sva_ 4y ago
My experience recently with the train going up the east coast during snow storms on my travel to US: you don't want to be stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere, imo.
- xwdv 4y ago
  Well that depends, getting stuck isn’t so bad if you have a luxurious room amongst the privileged elites enjoying 5 course meals. Sucks if you’re rationing crackers with the unwashed masses where you might be lucky to have some kind of grab handle.
  - qualudeheart 4y ago
    I would perhaps sit on the roof, as I eat rotisserie chickens.
- serf 4y ago
  >you don't want to be stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere, imo. don't take up ocean sailing!
yieldcrv 4y ago
But in the carriage with privileged drug abusing fashionistas, just like real life
midoridensha 4y ago
I haven't watched the show yet, but I've read about the general premise of this show (and the book it was based on). It really makes no sense to me; am I missing something? If the world turns into "snowball Earth", it seems like the last place you want to be is in a moving vehicle. I guess an airplane would be even worse, but I don't see why you'd want people in a never-stopping train. It feels like this whole story was just contrived. In reality, in such a situation if you're some super-rich person, you'd want to set up some kind of underground city. Being underground, it'd be protected from the frigid weather outside, it'd be somewhat warm (caves stay at a constant temperature year-round), and you'd have space to do things like grow food using artificial lighting, and you wouldn't have to worry about mechanical breakdown suddenly exposing everyone to the weather and killing them.
- basch 4y ago
  The oceans are warming, right? Maybe a submarine city. Cruise around, pop up on some nice beaches.
  - qualudeheart 4y ago
    I want to go swimming in the ocean.
- em-bee 4y ago
  you are right of course. a train might make sense if it is to hot, using the movement to cool down, but then too going underground would be better. but if you ignore that problem the show becomes enjoyable.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    This reminds me of "The Martian": the initial set-up was completely impossible, but if you ignore that the movie was pretty good.
- oh_sigh 4y ago
  I think the idea is that the train was pre-existing, and it has some kind of perpetual motion engine which keeps it going and which the occupants can siphon off heat for warmth and electricity.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    Ok, but if you have a perpetual motion engine (or at least a nuclear reactor with basically unlimited fuel), wouldn't it make more sense to take it out of the train, put it into an underground building, and live there? There's plenty of pre-existing underground spaces in large cities, even with their own train systems. It wouldn't be that hard to abandon the above-ground stuff for the most part, and start expanding the below-ground stuff for people to live in. Even modern-day trains don't cope well with heavy snowfall; the idea of the last vestiges of humanity living on a train traveling around the world endlessly, where they have to worry about being derailed by the weather at any time, doesn't seem to make sense.

sva_ 4y ago

My experience recently with the train going up the east coast during snow storms on my travel to US: you don't want to be stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere, imo.

xwdv 4y ago
Well that depends, getting stuck isn’t so bad if you have a luxurious room amongst the privileged elites enjoying 5 course meals. Sucks if you’re rationing crackers with the unwashed masses where you might be lucky to have some kind of grab handle.
- qualudeheart 4y ago
  I would perhaps sit on the roof, as I eat rotisserie chickens.
serf 4y ago
>you don't want to be stuck for hours in the middle of nowhere, imo. don't take up ocean sailing!

yieldcrv 4y ago

But in the carriage with privileged drug abusing fashionistas, just like real life

midoridensha 4y ago

I haven't watched the show yet, but I've read about the general premise of this show (and the book it was based on). It really makes no sense to me; am I missing something? If the world turns into "snowball Earth", it seems like the last place you want to be is in a moving vehicle. I guess an airplane would be even worse, but I don't see why you'd want people in a never-stopping train. It feels like this whole story was just contrived. In reality, in such a situation if you're some super-rich person, you'd want to set up some kind of underground city. Being underground, it'd be protected from the frigid weather outside, it'd be somewhat warm (caves stay at a constant temperature year-round), and you'd have space to do things like grow food using artificial lighting, and you wouldn't have to worry about mechanical breakdown suddenly exposing everyone to the weather and killing them.

basch 4y ago
The oceans are warming, right? Maybe a submarine city. Cruise around, pop up on some nice beaches.
- qualudeheart 4y ago
  I want to go swimming in the ocean.
em-bee 4y ago
you are right of course. a train might make sense if it is to hot, using the movement to cool down, but then too going underground would be better. but if you ignore that problem the show becomes enjoyable.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  This reminds me of "The Martian": the initial set-up was completely impossible, but if you ignore that the movie was pretty good.
oh_sigh 4y ago
I think the idea is that the train was pre-existing, and it has some kind of perpetual motion engine which keeps it going and which the occupants can siphon off heat for warmth and electricity.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  Ok, but if you have a perpetual motion engine (or at least a nuclear reactor with basically unlimited fuel), wouldn't it make more sense to take it out of the train, put it into an underground building, and live there? There's plenty of pre-existing underground spaces in large cities, even with their own train systems. It wouldn't be that hard to abandon the above-ground stuff for the most part, and start expanding the below-ground stuff for people to live in. Even modern-day trains don't cope well with heavy snowfall; the idea of the last vestiges of humanity living on a train traveling around the world endlessly, where they have to worry about being derailed by the weather at any time, doesn't seem to make sense.