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[KateHikes14]

For what it's worth, that was proposed in the atom-crazy 1950's, along with nuclear merchant ships.

In all cases, it was found that conventional engines running on fuel oil were still cheaper to maintain and the amounts of shielding and water you'd need to safely operate a reactor inside a vehicle eats up a lot of potential passenger/cargo payload and increases the weight to the point you'd have to upgrade all the critical infrastructure too, like runways and bridges, to not rapidly wear out if not collapse.

The Air Force diddled around with the concept of a nuclear nuclear bomber and the only airframe large enough to accommodate the reactor, shielding, and extra technicians was a B-36 Peacemaker, the largest bomber USAF ever fielded... and they eventually decided it wasn't practical as the theoretical unlimited range would largely be wasted as there was only so much a crew, even working in shifts, could fly before they ran out of endurance. Unlike a nuclear sub, you couldn't stuff the bomber with enough bunks, food, bathrooms and enough other minimal creature comforts to change that without completely using up the space it needs to actually carry the bombs its mission called for.

The nuclear cargo ship is a fantastic idea, but unfortunately president Eisenhower was merely a president and not a dictator for life to make the ship that was built truly work. It started out as a undersized cargo-cruise ship hybrid proof of concept. Eventually the ship was half ass-retrofit to be only a cargoship. And with the broken arrows in the following years causing massive enviromental cleanup in spain, no ports would allow it eventually. With the advancements to nuclear aircraft carriers and the massive size increases to modern cargoships, nuclear cargoships would allow for faster, much cleaner international shipping.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

no regard has ever been put into making them actually usable. Bike lanes begin and end at complete random and will probably put you in an awkward spot where you have to merge into car traffic or (more likely) ride the sidewalk for a bit. Also, bike lanes that are built are in some truly terribad locations. Recently they took out an entire lane of traffic on a large artery road into the city for a full sized bike lane, not paying any mind to the 12-15% grade of the road.

I find that people complaining about the "usability" of bike lanes to be an endlessly insufferable group of people, because anything...difficulty of left turns, brief merges into traffic or MUPs, dotted-line bike paths, the speed of adjacent traffic, and so forth are all reasons to complain about the city not "doing enough" and despite all the taxpayer money, the roads getting fucked over, there's always another problem to deal with. (There are a few "death trap" areas created in bike lane construction, but few and far between).

 

[Aegir]

I find that people complaining about the "usability" of bike lanes to be an endlessly insufferable group of people, because anything...difficulty of left turns, brief merges into traffic or MUPs, dotted-line bike paths, the speed of adjacent traffic, and so forth are all reasons to complain about the city not "doing enough" and despite all the taxpayer money, the roads getting fucked over, there's always another problem to deal with. (There are a few "death trap" areas created in bike lane construction, but few and far between).

Honestly even a "good" bike lane would be far from perfect, but the issue I'm talking about is that, even going ludicrously far out of your way (this is urbanism so inconvenience is just a thing), you for the most part cannot connect one point on a map to another and get there via pure bike lanes. Imo, that automatically makes them kind of a fail.

And that's not even mentioning the fact that they are road debris magnets since for the most part they're a repurposed shoulder, so I hope you brought tyre plugs. And even in an ideal world where loads of people take bicycles to work and there is a bike lane on literally every road? Still won't work. These bike lanes fold under any kind of traffic pressure since there is no way to pass and vehicles can be traveling at wildly different speeds. This combined with a lack of proper lights and indicators on 98% of bicycles means traffic becomes somewhat dangerous.

Ultimately they're just ornaments on any trendy urban development project and I genuinely don't believe they are put there for any practical use. They'd be better off being repurposed into general traffic lanes (or at least a flex lane for rush hour) which will alleviate far more congestion than the bike lanes ever did.

The cold hard truth is that any lane can be a bicycle lane. I did it for years, just have proper lights, wear bright visible clothes, and stay off to the side of the lane to let faster traffic pass, and you'll be perfectly fine. And to the lycra posse who insists they own the road on their bougie $8k carbon road bike, there is a lovely thing called "cycle paths" that exist all over most of the US. They're beautiful, usually paved, and you never have to deal with cagies. Now I'm in my 30s if I'm taking a bicycle ride for exercising I'm doing it on a bicycle trail. Just makes sense.

 

[LaxerBRO]

The nuclear cargo ship is a fantastic idea, but unfortunately president Eisenhower was merely a president and not a dictator for life to make the ship that was built truly work. It started out as a undersized cargo-cruise ship hybrid proof of concept. Eventually the ship was half ass-retrofit to be only a cargoship. And with the broken arrows in the following years causing massive enviromental cleanup in spain, no ports would allow it eventually. With the advancements to nuclear aircraft carriers and the massive size increases to modern cargoships, nuclear cargoships would allow for faster, much cleaner international shipping.

You would need to staff it with competent nuclear engineers. It might be a chicken/ egg problem but I don't think we can produce enough competent people. This is not even addressing nuclear terrorism.

 

[KateHikes14]

You would need to staff it with competent nuclear engineers. It might be a chicken/ egg problem but I don't think we can produce enough competent people. This is not even addressing nuclear terrorism.

The US navy does it just fine under tougher conditions with far more sets of reactors than would be necessary to result in an emissions reduction greater than every road vehicle in the US, and the speeds which would be then available would make concerns of boat based boarding far harder. The level of enrichment required is low enough that it would be far more reasonable for bad actors to source the radioactive material elsewhere. Is it a plan without problems? No, but it is an extremely realistic solution that the end users would only see benefits from. ...which is why these faggots will never advocate for it.

 

[BulkForceFive]

The US navy does it just fine under tougher conditions with far more sets of reactors than would be necessary to result in an emissions reduction greater than every road vehicle in the US, and the speeds which would be then available would make concerns of boat based boarding far harder. The level of enrichment required is low enough that it would be far more reasonable for bad actors to source the radioactive material elsewhere. Is it a plan without problems? No, but it is an extremely realistic solution that the end users would only see benefits from. ...which is why these faggots will never advocate for it.

The US Navy is only partially staffed with dumb Filipinos.

International cargo shipping is run like those ultracapitalist villains from some bad sci-fi dystopia, the absolute cheapest of everything including crew run to the limits of breaking. Captains are frequently pressured by some nerd in a cubicle to chart particular courses with regards to weather because the safe route would burn .43% more fuel. Would you want a reactor run by penny-pinchers and staffed by Indians and Chinese to pull into a port near you?

 

[KateHikes14]

The US Navy is only partially staffed with dumb Filipinos.

International cargo shipping is run like those ultracapitalist villains from some bad sci-fi dystopia, the absolute cheapest of everything including crew run to the limits of breaking. Captains are frequently pressured by some nerd in a cubicle to chart particular courses with regards to weather because the safe route would burn .43% more fuel. Would you want a reactor run by penny-pinchers and staffed by Indians and Chinese to pull into a port near you?

As long as they are designed by Americans hired for merit. Idk how much you know about American manufacturing as opposed to foreign but 99% of the job for process engineers in America is to make doing it wrong by the nigger on more fent than George Floyd working the machinery either impossible or feel painfully wrong the entire time.

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Looks like North Dakota has a WEF plant for a governor:
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Why does the governor from one of the least urban states in the country sound like a NYC bugman?

He looks like a low-rent version of Gavin Newsom. Kind of like the B-list actor look-alike that you get when your production budget is low.



Do you think they were spawned in the same bug hive?

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Looks like North Dakota has a WEF plant for a governor:
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Why does the governor from one of the least urban states in the country sound like a NYC bugman?

He looks just Eugene Levy

 

[WelperHelper99]

The nuclear cargo ship is a fantastic idea, but unfortunately president Eisenhower was merely a president and not a dictator for life to make the ship that was built truly work. It started out as a undersized cargo-cruise ship hybrid proof of concept. Eventually the ship was half ass-retrofit to be only a cargoship. And with the broken arrows in the following years causing massive enviromental cleanup in spain, no ports would allow it eventually. With the advancements to nuclear aircraft carriers and the massive size increases to modern cargoships, nuclear cargoships would allow for faster, much cleaner international shipping.

Nuclear cargo ships are honestly the future. Imagine how much more they could carry now that they wouldn't have to reserve space for fuel. And the speed. Aircraft carriers go 30+ knots and are 100,000 tons. Shipping times would speed up and costs lower like you've never seen.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Looks like North Dakota has a WEF plant for a governor:
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Why does the governor from one of the least urban states in the country sound like a NYC bugman?

Uhh, you don't want to Bike in North Dakota.
In the winter, it's -30 and WINDY. In the summer, you have infinite misquotes and biting flies. Did I mention the wind? Great plains are windy, makes it hard to bike sometimes if you have a strong headwind, or crosswind.
The only "urban" areas are like Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismark, and Minot. Most of the state is super rural farming towns or oil towns on the western part.
People are not clamoring for bike lanes in Grafton. He does make a small point about zoning, but it's lost it making an appeal to urbanists fiefdom.

Oh here's the weather between Copenhagen and Bismark, the capital of North Dakota.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

rate it late/dumb but The Extinction Clock.com has gone down.
I remember we talked about that website in this thread.

 

[teriyakiburns]

rate it but Extintionclock.com has gone down.
I remember we talked about that website in this thread.

.org, not .com

 

[Carpenter Trout]

.org, not .com

Oh my bad, thanks. I mistyped it, but it was down a couple of days ago. Good to know it wasn't a permanent outage

 

[JJLiautaud]

https://vxtwitter.com/OfAthenry/status/1767379928561938552

Dude talks about what we're talking about all the time in the US.

We need @quaawaa to do his geoguesser autism to figure what these retards are trying to do.

 

[quaawaa]

We need @quaawaa to do his geoguesser autism to figure what these retards are trying to do.

Here's the spot in the video:

Google Maps

What's that thing in the background? Oh nothing, except a pedestrian bridge:


They're in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair in New York City. The street that they were on is low traffic and runs runs parallel with the highway, with a bunch of pedestrian bridges to cross the highways. There are also a lot of trails in the park. There is no reason for them to be walking along the highway no matter where they want to go as every possible direction has a pedestrian friendly route.

(Bridge in the video is circled in blue)

The park was built over an old ash dump which is why the rest of the area is pretty industrial.

I can't believe they destroyed the city to build highways, stadiums, rail yards, and parks!

Original source of the video is: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3p327JuLnB/ (GhostArchive) (Archive)

Spoiler: Video

It's a troll post playing up the urbanist trend to try and boost their new travel Instagram account.
Considering they got 264k likes, the trick worked.

OP left a comment on their post:


This comment sums up my thoughts:

 

[JJLiautaud]

Here's the spot in the video:
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Google Maps

What's that thing in the background? Oh nothing, except a pedestrian bridge:
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They're in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair in New York City. The street that they were on is low traffic and runs runs parallel with the highway, with a bunch of pedestrian bridges to cross the highways. There are also a lot of trails in the park. There is no reason for them to be walking along the highway no matter where they want to go as every possible direction has a pedestrian friendly route.
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(Bridge in the video is circled in blue)

The park was built over an old ash dump which is why the rest of the area is pretty industrial.
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I can't believe they destroyed the city to build highways, stadiums, rail yards, and parks!

Original source of the video is: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3p327JuLnB/ (GhostArchive) (Archive)

Spoiler: Video

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It's a troll post playing up the urbanist trend to try and boost their new travel Instagram account.
Considering they got 264k likes, the trick worked.

OP left a comment on their post:
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This comment sums up my thoughts:
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Looking at the map they were a mile from the nearest subway station and had 4 within 2, what more could these retards want? A world class sports stadium is also within 2 miles along with 8 restaurants a grocery store and a pretty huge park, I literally couldn't of picked a worse place in the to illustrate urbanist talking points if I tried.

 

[quaawaa]

Looking at the map they were a mile from the nearest subway station and had 4 within 2, what more could these retards want? A world class sports stadium is also within 2 miles along with 8 restaurants a grocery store and a pretty huge park, I literally couldn't of picked a worse place in the to illustrate urbanist talking points if I tried.

Urbanists hate the park because it was built by their archnemesis Robert Moses and notable antisemite Walt Disney. General Motors and Ford were also major sponsors.
In reality, they don't bother to look up anything about the areas they complain about.

 

[Corpun]

It's a troll post playing up the urbanist trend to try and boost their new travel Instagram account.
Considering they got 264k likes, the trick worked.

OP left a comment on their post:
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This comment sums up my thoughts:
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So instead of walking around this fence they decided it was smarter to go through a construction zone? I assume there was fuck all in the blocked off area given how inept construction companies are at doing anything related to their jobs, but seriously? Last thing anyone who isn't a retard is going to do is go into a construction zone.

Could they seriously not just use their eyes in an open area to navigate until Google Maps updates their route?

Fuckin retards.

 

[PozzedByCoronachan]

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