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Tennessee Hillbilly

(690 posts) Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:45 PM Jul 13

China's Maglev Prototype Reaches 650 km/h as Dedicated Network Construction Underway

Source: Ground News

China successfully demonstrated a 1.1-ton Maglev train reaching 404 mph in under 7 seconds, with technology capable of 620 mph speeds. The system, tested at Donghu Laboratory, achieves 4-millimeter precision at extreme velocities.
What It Means: This reproducible technology will transform intercity travel in China, with plans to connect major cities like Beijing and Shanghai in just 90 minutes. Construction of the high-speed track will be completed by year-end.

Read more: https://ground.news/daily-briefing/chinas-new-maglev-beijing-unveils-its-train-of-the-future

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China's Maglev Prototype Reaches 650 km/h as Dedicated Network Construction Underway (Original Post) Tennessee Hillbilly Jul 13 OP

we are rapidly becoming a third world country lapfog_1 Jul 13 #1

With a digital real time economy bucolic_frolic Jul 13 #2

There, you get innovation and wonder. Here, ridicule and scorn . . . Journeyman Jul 13 #3

We're going to go back to steam engines while the rest of the world slightlv Jul 13 #4

Big, Beautiful Coal BidenRocks Jul 13 #6

WOW! Buddyzbuddy Jul 13 #5

China is on its way to being the only superpower JI7 Jul 13 #7

we have private property here in America... RussBLib Jul 13 #8

lapfog_1

(31,141 posts)

1. we are rapidly becoming a third world country

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:49 PM

Jul 13

China will be #1, EU will be #2, USA/Russia/Africa and south America... also rans.

bucolic_frolic

(51,615 posts)

2. With a digital real time economy

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:58 PM

Jul 13

Why does anyone need to be somewhere else?

Journeyman

(15,362 posts)

3. There, you get innovation and wonder. Here, ridicule and scorn . . .

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:17 PM

Jul 13

Compare China's move into the future with how the "Bullet Train" was resisted and disparaged here in California.

Someday, China will have trains that never stop, while we'll be chugging around in coal-powered buggies.

slightlv

(6,192 posts)

4. We're going to go back to steam engines while the rest of the world

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 03:49 PM

Jul 13

races ahead with new technologies.... many of them coming from the smartest, most intelligent scientists and engineers that this administration drove out of the country. Shame!

BidenRocks

(1,886 posts)

6. Big, Beautiful Coal

Reply to slightlv (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 08:35 PM

Jul 13

Look at that stack!

Dedicated lines could reduce cargo trucks and operate cheaper.
We can't even get LA to SF.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,237 posts)

5. WOW!

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 06:04 PM

Jul 13

Maybe out of context but this comes to mind " it's the jump that's gonna kill you" Butch and Sundance discussing the fear of drowning while contemplating jumping into a river from a high cliff.

JI7

(92,363 posts)

7. China is on its way to being the only superpower

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 08:38 PM

Jul 13

on this planet.

RussBLib

(9,963 posts)

8. we have private property here in America...

Reply to Tennessee Hillbilly (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 08:49 PM

Jul 13

...and ain't nobody gonna take my land!!

If they do buy it from you and build something phenomenal, some Cro-Magnon will plant explosives somewhere on the route and proclaim that "God didn't intend us to travel 600mph! We should be getting around on donkeys!!"

It says so right there in the "good book."

https://russblib.blogspot.com

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