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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Other than the war part of it, where do I sign up?!?!?!

    Reminds me of a bi-plane jump I did at the World Freefall Convention in the mid-late '90s in Quincy, IL. Reach up, grab a bar attached to the wing, plane goes inverted, you hang from the wing and then let go. It was as cool AF as you might imagine. Second only to the Hot Air Balloon jump. The Jet was fun because it was a 727 but it felt like any other high and fast jump. But those two? Gold man.












  • I won’t agree or disagree with the speed comment, you could very well be correct.

    As for powering by solar in Japan (and any other currently electrified system), I would guess that’s easily done right now by changing how their power is generated; and that doesn’t require a change in the system, just the generation. In japan around 66% of their rail is already electrified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_in_Japan look at the summary box showing total miles and electrified miles). So I’m still skeptical that a conveyor system is the answer vs adding more electrified rail in that same strip of land and powering it with solar generation. But again, maybe there’s something to be gained with such a different engineering solution per my OP.

    And while you’re spot on for the US (less than 1% from my google search) a conveyor won’t solve it sadly unless there’s something about that which makes it cheaper to deploy then adding a catenary system to our current railways.