Message from @meratrix
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we are so massively taxed with tobacco it's insane
all this new legislation's done is help move the tobacco industry's average purchase price by over 100%
My eyes are glazed over as fuck trying to follow this
What in the ass are y'all on about
Apologies Canuck. We passed legislation in the UK massively upping the price and minimum supplied quantities, alongside measures to remove all unique identifying packaging from such products recently
whereas before you could purchase a 12g pouch of tobacco, now you can only purchase a minimum of 30grams
Cigarettes cause a fuckload of cancer so
yes, they do
Can't say I'm mad they're taxing them to high hell
convince people to quit, or not start
I can, when the money isn't going to the NHS
it's going to the tobacco companies
*ha*
falcon 10 prototypes
damn if only he'd remove the rest of the plastic covers
looks so sick
car seats?
march on rome with that shit
or seats for the hyperloop lol
they look comfy tho
Has Hyperloop been downgraded to a regular train, or is he still going on about vacuum tubes?
Why would it be a regular train?
Vaccum tubes are the whole point
Also the whole reason that makes it impractical.
nah it just makes it difficult to adjust if you have an existing transport network
but other than that, hyperloops make a lot of sense
>miles and miles of gigantic vacuum pipes across a tectonically active area
>make a lot of sense
better than track laid on the ground, my dude
having said that, still a valid concern
Do you realize there's a track inside the pipe?
yep
but the track can be suspended within the inner tube, and the tube itself can be too with a combination of suspension systems and laser ranging from one point to another to measure tolerances
obviously if anything is going through the san andreas fault when it conks, it's not going to end well
It's a great idea unless you like constant potentially deadly incidents
the vacuum principle and the safety risks are all real
I get it's space age but it can work
Even if nobody dies when the tube collapses and 1 atmosphere of air comes rushing in, pumping the air all out again, takes a lot of time and energy.
It's extremely inefficient for the speed it gives
do you have figures to cite that hotzendorf?