Comments by "Sedna063" (@Sedna063) on "The B1M" channel.

  1. Die Anstalt is a satirical programm which took up the unfounded talking points of activists. They aren’t engineers
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  2. LOL.
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  3. Don’t forget that costs depend on a lot of things. In Seattle building was difficult due to terrain i. An urban space
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  4.  @MG-jm1yh  Could you provide commentary in English?
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  5.  @EricWayne0807  Rail is almost always more expensive than flight. Simple reason. You have 1300 kilometer of track between Bejing and Shanghai. That just cost a lot to lay and to maintain. Air is free. It just cost some radar and flight controllers. But those exist for HSR too. Anyway, it will be interesting to see how much ticket prices will rise when maintenance will become an issue. They use solid tracks which have quite a lot of life but also are a pain to maintain once damaged. Plus, concrete can be poured incorrectly. Are you a Chinese living in China?
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  6.  @blackhole9961  China has political will to do it. Germany, France, Spain, Japan all have labour laws and they managed to get it done especially given that Germany and Japan are much more densely populated than California.
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  7.  @blackhole9961  That also means they have much less land available to built a HSR. LA and SF are large enough to supply a meaningful HSR route between them. And densely populated enough so that people will make the trip to the train stations.
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  8.  @blackhole9961  There is sprawl but there is enough demand between inter city travel. They are distanced far enough between them.
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  9.  @blackhole9961  As I previously explained it to you, you only look at the direct time it takes for the journey. But you need to travel to the airport and depending on where you this may or may not be closer. You will need to be at least an hour earlier, better even earlier with luggage. Pass through security and wait at the gate. That whole flight is weather dependent unlike trains. After landing you taxi and then you need to wait for a parking spot, wait until you get your property. Trains are faster because you save yourself a lot of hassle. In Europe you can observe that depending on travel times the train is competitive at 4h and beats the airline anytime below 3h. France: Paris - Marseille, once on the busiest routes in France, now obsolete and hardly served at all. The train takes 3h for 770 kilometers. It isn't preposterous to think that the same effect cannot happen in California. Especially given the huge demand between those two cities, San Jose, Bakersfield et cetera.
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  10. China doesn’t have the best reputation. Many countries have now realised that any infrastructure they built uses Chinese steel, concrete, engineers and workers. Most of the time the local economy can contribute very little to it. So why would countries take on debt to finance Chinese companies?
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  11. Nope.
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  12. The thing is they lack political support from a coalition. They never get the support of the people and environmentalists drag every project on and on and on.
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  13. Stuttgart isn't the only affected region. As BW is a main sponsor of the project and beneficiary, the people of Mannheim should have a say too. And maybe, just maybe, protestors need to realise that protests need to run orderly and not against court rulings. Police had the right to clear the area. Follow police....
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  14. For most people in the world, Israel is normal…
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  15.  @KaplingMagnum  Guess how it came to be an Arab land. With conquest… Jews have been living there way before any Arab nation existed.
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  16. Actually most red states are net federal takers...
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  17.  @blackhole9961  My point is that this guy thinks this is bad. Because mostly red states profit from federal spending as a portion of funds allocated to them.
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  18. Ehm, yes? Plus it allows locomotives to transport more cargo at esch go. So you massively increase cargo capacity
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  19. The rich will pay for the room with lots of money - income for the state. And it will ease some burden on Cairo. It isn't the best project but it isn't a desaster. There are other projects that have wasted more money.
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  20.  @alimaher1  Yep, I agree that this is overzealous building. Some cheaper and smaller design could have been better so that Egypt could finance schools.
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  21. Sunken
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  22. Too many NIMBYs. A great many Germans do not like to be disturbed by anything and bureaucracy and slow processes....
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  23. Unless they relocate to China.... Not possible.
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  24. Maybe accept what courts allow…
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  25.  @SomePotato  The right to peacefully assemble, yes. But it isn’t a right to thwart the law. The main escalation was when police came to cut down some trees as per court allowed it. The protestors tried to stop this. They were told by police to leave the area as they needed to prepare for the construction start. They didn’t follow the police order. Sorry but demonstrations have to follow police orders.
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  26.  @SomePotato  Yet what law is it when people can just stop construction works which are completely legal in accordance with the law…
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  27. It takes 11h.
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  28.  @adamkendall997  This is 1.2 trillion.
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  29. The US has more problems than just culture wars between dems and republicans. The big problem is the fact that republicans largely left sanity behind and are not using government as a strong hand in the world but would just rather cut taxes...
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  30.  @kirzuvo7145  Not even American or conservative....
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  31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQMP2eIsBtM&t=134s
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  32. Blame the people along the proposed route with obstruction and suing everything.
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  33. It will come. It will crash. Check the levels of debt (not just government debt).
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  34.  @weizhang2834  And you of your several 100 million people in poverty
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  35. You aren't demonised by the media. This is criticism and a lot of that is not unjustified. If anything, I think it is laughable that you think Western media is steered in the same way Chinese media is.
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  36. Nobody needed those architects of death...
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  37.  @isprikitikburkabush6200  the missiles are pretty cheap.
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  38. Yes
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  39. Costs of land acquisition. Nobody lives 2 kilometers below the mountains
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  40. Lol…
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  41. Land acquisition, law suits and plain incompetence.
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  42. We still can do though. China is impressive in science and in construction but unless you develop some more personal contributions and freedoms Europeans will never see you as an equal. How can the unfree be equal to the free?
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  43. It is built almost to completion.
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  44. The thing is that all those bureaucrats and governmental infrastructure is already in place in Cairo. Moving them 45 kilometers isn't such a big deal.
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  45. Doubt it will be built. Too expensive for not enough demand
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  46. That is indeed a question most Chinese and Youtubers never cover. Investment is not a one time expense. You can finance such projects fine when your economy grows 6% a year. Good luck when it is just 2%. And when you have it all, you need to maintain it which will only increase until a point where it isn't feasable to built new but when significant expenses must be made. Europe has less HSR (it is smaller and) because it already had infrastructure largely in place.
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  47. He could perhaps also make a video why Hamas aims missiles onto Israeli civilians and why Palestinian terrorists kill unarmed civilians with alarming regularity.
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  48. It isn't too bad if you get infrastructure for it.
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  49. Europe really isn’t all that interconnected by rail. Maybe Western Europe but it still takes a day to travel from Germany to Rome by train. And Northern Africa is even larger than Europe.
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  50.  @FarsightAE  Maybe for freight this could be a possibility. But I lack the phantasy for passenger rail, sorry. Morocco is 3700 kilometers away from Egypt. Nobody will sit in such a train.
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