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[–] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I hate the attitude that professor exhibits. "Well we might've wasted years of work, billions of dollars, millions of man-hours, burned up large stockpiles of limited resources, arrested development of national infrastructure doing something we knew was impossible and in this process we've created absolutely nothing worthwhile, but at least I learned a lot! Gotta look on the bright side!"

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If China did the same thing with state resources this dude would have a half chub for the rest of his life

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt it, he'd probably find some reason why it was bad us-foreign-policy

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I meant the wasting billions of dollars for nothing part

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

He probably feels that way about China's poverty alleviation and rural revitalization programs.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

He was a physics phd with a focus in gravitational waves, never a professor. His phd thesis has 0 citations.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're right, but I feel like even without the hyperloop, the government (or other rich fucks) would find some way to avoid building a train line. Trying and failing to build a hyperloop was just a convenient excuse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah for sure, but that's because they're rich dickheads. This guy is just an idiot engineer with his head up his ass going so-true for "knawledge"
He's not into this because of geopolitics, he's just a useful idiot