Ohhh GOD, no... Just no.... - Page 1
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author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:13:54 pm
content: The YouTuber got his thumbnail dead on...

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:22:48 pm
content: from 1990,https://youtu.be/rp6tazOZqCI?si=QqffIjGu9Uo8-4xJ

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:27:51 pm
content: I ignore YouTube videos, but is that still photo a track-alignment device being operated by the maintenance-of-way department?

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:29:03 pm
content: Pleaselet me see a proto encounter a set of points for the first time!

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:39:29 pm
content: if the tracks already there just adopt the cambodian model

author: temperance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:46:37 pm
content: And some monkeys saw an opportunity in this and ponied up some money?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:57:00 pm
content: Quote from: Gyro on July 17, 2025, 09:29:03 pmYeah, what about switches? Surprised the video author didn't mention that part.Love how he keeps referring to those stupid "pods" as "mobile coffins". Also love the plushie-trains.Hey, there's already a way to enjoy travel on abandoned rail lines, under your own power:rail bikes.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 09:59:12 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 17, 2025, 09:57:00 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draisine

author: Kean
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 10:01:57 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on July 17, 2025, 09:27:51 pmNo, they are mini passenger monorail pods with gyroscope stabilisation, where the pods can pass each other going in alternate directions on each track.Presumably that arm in the thumbnail just for testing, as the video shows a different stabilising foot configuration that would not interfere with a pod passing on the other track.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 10:35:18 pm
content: Quote from: BrianHG on July 17, 2025, 09:13:54 pmHey, Brian, thanks for posting that video. I looked at his other stuff and "Adam Something" is a wonderful debunker of all kinds of shit that needs debunked.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 10:57:12 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 17, 2025, 09:57:00 pmRail bikes were once promoted as a way for sight-impaired riders to travel on "abandoned" rail lines.Please note that when a rail line is actually abandoned, the company salvages the rails for scrap value, although the roadbed probably survives and can be converted into a hiking trail.Just because you don't see a train on that track does not mean that one will not appear.That promotion was probably for purposes of euthanasia.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 11:02:28 pm
content: Ok so that is what you do in CUBA of all places.about 60% in they show their rail car.Anyway those vehicals always make me laugh when I consider a angry bear occurring.So is this thing a way to help Cuba go green? These vehicles are not required unless you had serious prolonged beefing with the CIA. Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba. When you see a rail car it means that covert forces had at least 6 solid attempts at destabilization in the area.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 11:06:39 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on July 17, 2025, 10:57:12 pmhere some have asphalted and turned into bike paths

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 11:23:00 pm
content: In the US, it's called "rails to trails".A railfan organization said it sounded good to preserve the rights-of-way, but that you should never assume that the wilderness warriors would ever allow them to revert to rail use.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 11:33:23 pm
content: Quote from: coppercone2 on July 17, 2025, 11:02:28 pmAll those plastic bottles used to store other liquids remind me of my trip to Nicaragua in 1988.We saw people toting all kinds of re-used plastic containers, previously used for all sorts of stuff, to carry water.In the movie theater in Managua, when you got a drink at the concession stand, it was served in a plastic bag.You bit one corner on the bottom to drink out of. Took a bit of skill not to get it all over yourself.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2025, 12:04:03 am
content: I wonder if they will eventually make or find some kind of plant that has a thick waxy cup shaped leaf that can be used as a organic cup.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2025, 01:15:45 am
content: Quote from: coppercone2 on July 18, 2025, 12:04:03 amI'm sure you could find a plant with large leaves, maybe tropical, that could be put into a press with some kind of natural binder (plant resins) and squished into a cup that would last just long enough.The tech bros ought to be coming up with interesting and useful stuff like that instead of this stupid shit.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 18, 2025, 01:50:34 am
content: Quote from: temperance on July 17, 2025, 09:46:37 pmI know... Probably got funding right away.After 6 months, I'm only finally just receiving positive correspondence from a few VC firms for my fitness music technology.