Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Sideprojects" channel.

The cost-efficiency of freight transport by ship or barge has less to do with friction (or lack thereof) than sheer economy of scale.
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It should be no surprise whatsoever that the house Corbu designed was an unmitigated disaster, as his efforts at urban planning were also unmitigated disasters, inflicting massive scars and open, festering wounds upon many of the world's great cities. Superblocks that crushed a city's functional fabric and massive, brutalist structures where poor people were stacked like firewood in the midst of employment deserts were his trademark and many cities in America have still not fully recovered from his pernicious influence. Screw him and his legacy.
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We learned about Brasilia in middle school social studies in the early 1970s in Virginia.
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"The Roads Must Roll." Short story.
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@ariste01 Yes, you were.
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@Demmrir I've seen dozens of residential-above-retail low-rise buildings throughout the United States, in older areas of large cities, in brownfield redevelopments, and in greenfield New Urban neighborhoods. Most were designed to fit the local vernacular and NONE of them were common, boring, cheap, or "samey." For contemporary examples, check out Orenco Station in Hillsboro OR, Stapleton and Lowry in Denver CO, and Baldwin Park and Avalon Park in Orlando FL.
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@SewolHoONCE True, but the technology didn't fail. The people did.
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That depends on where you are and where you want to go. For example, if I'm in Northern Virginia and I want to go to Philadelphia, I'd rather drive to a nearby Metro station and park my car all day for a few bucks, take the Metro to Union Station, take the Acela to 30th Street Station, then jump on the subway to wherever I'm going in downtown Philadelphia. I can read or nap instead of grinding my teeth in I-95's continuous traffic jam for hours, then paying more to park at my destination than I did to park in NoVa plus the four subway trips. I've actually done that trip by both train (Metroliner, back in the day) and by car at various times and the train was - by far - easier, faster, and less stressful.
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Really? NO other nation has built a national system of limited access expressways? Perhaps, if they had, they might have called them "Autobahns" or "Motorways" or something like that. FFS, pal, pick up a book!
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You're probably thinking of Ni'iihau, the westernmost inhabited island in the archipelago. It's been privately owned by the Robinson family since Elizabeth Sinclair purchased it from the Kingdom of Hawai'i in 1864. It should be noted that "Sinclair" and "Robinson" aren't exactly Polynesian names, so I'm not sure where you heard that it is "inhabited solely by native Polynesians." You might also be thinking of Kaho'olawe, which was uninhabited and used as a bombing range for decades but is now a protected Reserve limited to native non-commercial cultural uses. There's NO fresh water there so it remains and will remain uninhabited.
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1) Monowheels work perfectly well in World of Warcraft, but that's only because the usual laws of physics are selectively applied (or not). 2) Amphicars work perfectly well at Disney Springs, but that's only because there's a staff to keep them running. 3) Heinlein wrote a short story about an advanced version of moving sidewalk technology titled "The Roads Must Roll," but it's really about social and labor issues, not moving sidewalks. In the story, Heinlein predicts both linear urban sprawl and a transport pod that is basically a Segway. 4) Segways are just plain stupid.
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Coward! I expected you to mention the 28,000-year-old stone dildo that was discovered in Germany. 🤣
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@gungriffen Europe covers approximately 3,930,000 square miles. Texas covers approximately 268,800 square miles. Your geography and math skills are just as strong as your knowledge of history. Your original assertion was that "no other nation" had built a limited access expressway network. When I pointed out that was not correct, you moved the goalposts and STILL managed to be wrong.
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