Comments by "😊 Erin Thor" (@Erin-Thor) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. I dunno… I’ve grown accustomed to a President that spent more time at golf courses or at Mar-a-Largo than in the White House.
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  2. The old model I learned in college still remains true; “To error is human, to really muck things up requires a computer.” 😂
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  3. LOL! On a serious note, trains have the lowest cost per mile per passenger of any mode of transportation. And the USA has how many high speed trains? Wait for it. Zero.
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  4. There’s a REASON why they don’t show plane crash movies on flights. 🤣 Snakes on a plane has never been aired on a plane.
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  5. Had you said Switzerland, Haiti, Israel and Togo, the acronym would have been perfection. 😎❤️😁
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  6. @internet person — Yes. Implementing major continental wide projects is a lot easier when the people have no voice. What amazes me is in crowded places like Japan, passengers are the most polite and civil ever.
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  7. @Totally not a troll account — I’m no expert, but I believe we have rail lines darn near everywhere. The issue is those rails can’t be used for high speed trains, requiring new ones to be built. One article gave the example of a 65 mph commuter train doing well over the tracks ups and downs, and curves. However increase to 240 mph and it’s not staying on the tracks, and the simple change in grade before an intersection (or?) on a high speed train would send anything not tied down flying. So your food, drinks, phones and laptops would be airborne many times. Hence what they said about EXPENSE. New rails need new land, and that turns this into the biggest project in history.
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  8. If you had approached this from a psychological perspective instead of an “evolutionary” perspective I could have shared it with my relatives. Sadly, as is, your message would be lost on the very people who need to understand it. 😢
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  9. Am I the only one that found it humorous that the Melania Trump statue in her home country was burned? 🤣
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  10. @internet person — Cool username BTW! 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻 I take it you haven’t read some of the articles on this subject. The issue isn’t placing high speed rail lines through remote areas Ike the Dakota’s, the issue is the COST of the changes needed. Our existing Rail system was designed around slow steam engine travel. Our existing rail lines could be used at lower speeds in cities, but once out of populated areas new tracks would be needed that are a level of precision (very level, very slight grades, very stable) that would require new tracks. There’s the burn, old tracks would still be needed for freight. New tracks require land, labor, and other resources that are now VERY expensive. In the early railroad days this was relatively cheap, now... not so cheap. The initial plans called for first stage corridors, east and west coast, with Spurs off to slower tracks near cities, this would allow a fast trip from say Tacoma/Seattle to LA or San Diego, but not much speed benefit say from SFO to LA. The second phase was an east to west coast high speed rail corridor, think overnight from NY to LA. Third phase was to be middle America city connections/stops. The big snag was cost, opposition from existing travel PAC”s, and public opposition. Think of it this way... Taxi companies feared loss of revenue and successfully lobbied lawmakers to block BART from serving SFO airport. The expected hurdles made the project an impossible one.
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  11. Awe Hush! You had me at “Requiredededed.” 😁
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  12.  @pitaya4151  — True, but that has been in the news (at least here in the states). This was a segment about news you may have missed. Have things there improved?
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  13. I’m lost, the purpose of dams is to a) Manage water resources, and b) generate power. If they do neither, why maintain the damn dam?
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  14.  @slepp449  — gee the point is to NOT flood the entire area, which is WHY you open the valves to drain the lake reservoir, and limit the water flow when it rains. Investors? The company? They stopped being viable the moment they stopped generating electricity.
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  15.  @slepp449  — No clue, but at the moment it’s just a ticking time bomb essentially. And I would think decommissioning would mean destruction, which would mean a major expense.
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  16.  @Plaid5912  👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿 🙃
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  17. Let’s hope not. Africa is a repressive evil empire.
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  18. I flip houses, and have rental properties. I noticed a trend after a few years of issues, Samsung fights every warranty repair tooth and nail, denying warranty claims for any possible reason. “We need the original receipt,” “We show Home Depot/Best Buy/Sam’s club/CostCo as the original purchaser, not you.” When you replace or repair your umpteenth TV, refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, whatever appliance inside the warranty period at your expense, and the only common denominator is Samsung… you get seriously pissed. AVOID SAMSUNG PRODUCTS AS IF THEY ARE RADIOACTIVE ☢️!!!
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  19.  @kevinTG554  — I’ve bought a lot of them, I’m just saying that IF you do, be warned.
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  20. @internet person — Wait... only China has high speed rail? So that 280 Km/hr train I took from France to Madrid wasn’t a fast train?
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  21.  @MudhaffarAdhwa  — There’s a “BangBus?” Whaaaaaaa?! Where do we buy tickets? For a friend... where do we buy tickets for “my friend?” 🤣
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  22. Dude WAS Trump! 🤣
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  23. If only the USA had a brain. Rail is a partial answer to our fuel and travel needs, but no-ooo-ooo we don’t do high speed rail. 😢
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  24. Why isn’t extremities on your channel listing?
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