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 Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 03:30 PM |
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[feebleAttemptOfGettingOutOfThisBackfiringFixI'mIn]
Well, Ross.... Techincally, if they have had 1811 years, they sure have had 800.
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Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 08:10 PM |
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valusoft wrote:
EW wrote:
valusoft wrote:
Who? 
BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit. The rail system around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wikipedia is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART
And Eric, if you had time to read earlier postings you would have recognised that my "Who?" related to the Simpson's comment. Never mind ...
And I thought, you, an Aussie and living on the other side of the planet, might have no clue what the topic really is.  |
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Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 08:11 PM |
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DocJC wrote:
Bob, isn't one of the rides at Disney a Mag Lev?
Having been to both of them within the last few years, no, it's just a plain monorail. No maglev.  |
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 01:42 AM |
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EW wrote:
And I thought, you, an Aussie and living on the other side of the planet, might have no clue what the topic really is.
Cheers,
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 03:17 AM |
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JohanEkdahl wrote:
[feebleAttemptOfGettingOutOfThisBackfiringFixI'mIn]
Well, Ross.... Techincally, if they have had 1811 years, they sure have had 800.
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You have earned yourself one of the very rare "payonebacktoRoss" vouchers with no expiry date; enjoy its warmth.
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 08:39 AM |
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Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 03:32 PM |
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JohanEkdahl wrote:
[feebleAttemptOfGettingOutOfThisBackfiringFixI'mIn]
Well, Ross.... Techincally, if they have had 1811 years, they sure have had 800.
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In BART's context, "Year 200" means Year 200 YB (*), which is 2172 AD, so they have another 160 years to achieve maglev. Even so, I would bet against BART getting maglev by 200 YB.
- S
(*) YB = Year of BART. Since BART started operations in 1972, that's the offset between YB and AD. |
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Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 12:52 AM |
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| Yeah, I have doubts that they will ever get the project off the ground |
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 06:38 AM |
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Thanks mnehpets.
For the rest of you - eat my shorts (j/k)
I was just hoping that there was another fossil around here who had either read the same stuff, or knew a little more about it.
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 04:06 PM |
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DocJC wrote:
Where is Uncle Bob?
Bob, isn't one of the rides at Disney a Mag Lev?
JC
Well Doc, I can remember being real excited about going there once shortly after it opend in about '72, and I think I've been back once or twice, but it was too expensive for the locals even back in the old days. I did go to Epcot once, and to the Tower of Terror once. What park is that one in again? Pathetic huh? |
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 05:32 PM |
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Oh Man!
I expected you to be the first one to wear a GPS and 3-Axis accel data logger on your belt as you toured the park and did the Space Mountain ride.
Eric,
I agree the "monorail" system is not a mag lev.
But, the ride I linked to IS, I believe, a mag lev.
It is a ride in the park, not part of the monorail that inter-connects everything.
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 05:49 PM |
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But, the ride I linked to IS, I believe, a mag lev.
According to this Wikipedia article it uses
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linear synchronous motors
but that only states something about it's propulsion. What is it resting/traveling on? One photo in that article suggests it is "ordinary rails". |
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Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 06:01 PM |
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Oh bummer.
So perhaps its not a mag lev at all, just a mag propulsion...
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