Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Repost -- a bit of historical context for the highspeed rail discussion
There was some discussion of vacuum tube trains in the early 1970s. There was even a science fiction story about the building of such a transcontinental train, except that it was actually a DOT Volpe plot to suck all of the Earth's atmosphere underground where the DOT was building a secret new civilization. Volpe maybe. Musk doesn't even make a good super-villain.
There was some discussion of vacuum tube trains in the early 1970s. There was even a science fiction story about the building of such a transcontinental train, except that it was actually a DOT Volpe plot to suck all of the Earth's atmosphere underground where the DOT was building a secret new civilization. Volpe maybe. Musk doesn't even make a good super-villain.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about that. If Die Another Day had come out in 2018, you'd swear the villain was based on Musk.
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