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  • #16
    hmmm... that could be fun actually! I had a look at a comment on the adrants site, and this caught my eye:

    According to Engineering Professor Harland Joffrey-Wistbommer from the Institute of Applied Natural Sciences & Transportation in Brugge, Belgium the media got this story wrong insofar as there will NOT be a tunnel built. In fact the New York to Paris train will be more of a high speed submarine, utilizing what is now known as Captured Aeration Propulsion (CAP) wherein a liquidynamic/aerodynamic submersible (the "train") is encased in a constantly replenishing giant bubble of air that envelops the submersible for its entire length, effectively removing the resistance presented by water and allowing the submersible to move in air. This technique is already successfully used on some major cargo ship hulls. Though not tested to its extreme limits the new technology will allow almost any size object, including a specially designed train, to travel at speeds in excess of 350 km/hr underwater effectively making the journey from New York to Paris in under 8 hours. Initial activity will be centered on the Atlantic ocean only as warmer Pacific waters seem to have a delitirious effect on the technology. Talks have started with Britain, Holland and Denmark to add them to the delivery chain.
    This is possible too, isn't it?

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    • #17
      According to Engineering Professor Harland Joffrey-Wistbommer from the Institute of Applied Natural Sciences & Transportation in Brugge, Belgium the media got this story wrong insofar as there will NOT be a tunnel built. In fact the New York to Paris train will be more of a high speed submarine, utilizing what is now known as Captured Aeration Propulsion (CAP) wherein a liquidynamic/aerodynamic submersible (the "train") is encased in a constantly replenishing giant bubble of air that envelops the submersible for its entire length, effectively removing the resistance presented by water and allowing the submersible to move in air. This technique is already successfully used on some major cargo ship hulls. Though not tested to its extreme limits the new technology will allow almost any size object, including a specially designed train, to travel at speeds in excess of 350 km/hr underwater effectively making the journey from New York to Paris in under 8 hours. Initial activity will be centered on the Atlantic ocean only as warmer Pacific waters seem to have a delitirious effect on the technology. Talks have started with Britain, Holland and Denmark to add them to the delivery chain.
      Yea, spending 8 hours under the Atlantic in a bubble of air going at 300mph

      Sorry, I'll pass, nothing wrong with the 767, 747, A330, A340, and 777.

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      • #18
        Sounds like a Sci-Fi movie of the month.

        I am sure that National Geographic will do a "disaster" documentary movie on it.


        By the way there is no way that this can cost less than or as much as a plane ticket!
        Whatever is necessary, is never unwise.

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        • #19
          OK, this is an hoax organized as part of the new advertisement drive by voyages-sncf.com. A joint venture set up by expedia and the french railways, voyages-sncf.com paid its advertising agency to deliver this prank. Success with the website forums was beyond expectations as it was flooded by train buffs. The on-line travel retailer has been associated to trains too closely in the market and was keen to show it delivers much more than train tickets. So came out "transatlantys". The final posters and ads on radios and TV conclude with :
          - Because train can't go everywhere, voyages-sncf.com also provides for airtransport.
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          • #20
            Mission Impossible. And way too expensive. Stick to air travel.
            Plus the safety issue is a bloody nightmare.

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