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microcolonel on Oct 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains

If the goalposts move as fast as these trains are marketed to move, I'm sure we could find all sorts of things worse than the already terrible tragedy of a deliberate derailment, explosion, or sabotage of a high speed train.

weberc2 on Oct 4, 2019 [–]

The goalposts didn't move, you were just reminded that conventional trains frequently carry explosive freight.

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