From: turnkey@q.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 17, 2013 8:34:16 PM UTC-8, richard wrote:   
   > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 14:10:34 -0800 (PST), Carl Rogers wrote:   
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   > What goes around comes around.   
   > Actually, that was the basis of the New York city subway system.   
   > An inventor had come up with the idea of transporting people in pods   
   > underground. Using compressed air.   
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   > The city built a 3 mile test section and the damn thing actully worked.   
   > However, the conception of a pod moving at 800mph ain't gonna fly.   
   > pardon the pun.   
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   > Why? Because most people could not withstand the force such movement would   
   > generate at ground level.   
      
      
      
   ??? What force would there be at ground level but not up higher?  The only   
   "force" felt by the passengers would be g forces involved in acc   
   leration/deceleration - once up to speed (or slowed down) the passengers would   
   feel no force at all.   
      
   Harry K   
      
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