Japan’s new super-fast L0 train floats above the ground and can go 500 km/h
This week, the first test runs for Japan’s new 500 kilometre-per-hour magnetic floating supertrain was a success.
The new generation of “L0 Trains” — set to be deployed in 2027 on the Tokyo-Nagoya line — are not the first “Mag Lev” (Magnetic Levitation) trains, but they are the first to regularly break 500 km/h.
The superfast trains use magnetic levitation instead of wheels to reduce friction and to allow the train to run better in all weather. The magnetic trains can also speed up and slow down more quickly than a traditional wheeled train. (JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images)Amtrak in about 5000 years.
I’ll put it on my calendar.
In honor of that Rosie the Riveter rip-off ad going around, I give you Peggy Seeger being awesome.
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pronunciation | ‘sE-yazh
notes | sillage is how close a perfume stays to your skin; perfume with light sillage does not leave much trace in the air. also, not to be confused with silage (sy-ladzh), which is a type of cow food.
THIS CAT IS ASKING TO BE PETTED IT IS ACTUALLY ASKING THIS IS THE MOST POLITE CAT IN THE WORLD AND IT’S GOING TO KILL MEMoki asks to be petted by ramming her forehead into my hand over and over again. It gets the point across, but she could take a lesson from this cat.
Eep!
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Please read and then consider sharing this information so we can get word out about this awesome program, which I found out about this morning via Momentum Mag.
Cyclists nationwide can buy a sticker, put it on their helmet and get discounts at participating retailers. There are more than 1,300 participating businesses nationwide, which is a lot, but there are still states that have zero businesses that participate. That’s why it’d be great if we could get the word out! I’m going to ask my dad, who owns a small business, if he can participate as well.
This program benefits everyone: local businesses, consumers and the environment. One food market reportedly gave out over $20K in discounts in one year, and consequently earned many new customers. It’s really a win-win situation all-around, especially in this economic climate and with more and more Republicans realizing that global warming is not a myth.
For all the information, check out BicylcleBenefits.org.
Word.
I want to do this a party just once.
Manny, I’m in if you need a partner.
Once upon a time by which I mean a month or two ago this totally happened at this place I work. I am sorry I missed getting video of it but I assure you age has not cramped their style.
“Rep. Bill Foster’s office is bright blue, almost electric, almost blinding. “When you visit an office like this, you feel like you’ve been somewhere,” Foster says, and he’s right.
Foster is the congressman representing Illinois’s 11th District, a narrow band covering a northern part of the state, where Chicago suburbs start to bleed into flat prairieland. He is a PhD physicist who worked on particle accelerators at Fermilab, and his first congressional campaign was endorsed by 31 Nobel Prize winners. “Then it went to 32 after Barack Obama won his prize,” he says. “But that’s a peace prize, so it’s not the same.”
He is also the congressman who, in March, introduced H.R. 1289 — the National Fab Lab Network Act.
“Something that’s missing with kids these days — and now I sound old,” he laughs. “But when I was a kid, you’d take apart lawn mowers, or rebuild hot rods, or take apart old radio and television sets and reconfigure the circuits to build wonderful, dangerous things.” That’s what he and his brother did, starting a theater lighting company in their parents’ basement when they were 19 and 17, respectively. Electronic Theatre Controls now makes more than half of the theater lights in the country.
“But that’s not available to kids today,” he says. “You can’t really take apart an iPhone and reconfigure the parts to do something wonderful. The most you can do is reprogram it with new apps. But it’s not the same as holding something you’ve designed.”
If passed, the National Fab Lab Network Act would treat fab labs like Little League or the Veterans of Foreign Wars — facilitating their creation, vetting prospective founders, matching donors with projects.
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- Monica Hesse for the Washington Post (via carbonfilament)
ETC is cool? I had no idea.
Been a lack of bamboo around here.
