/n/ - Transportation

Anonymous Tue 09 Nov 2021 21:56:39 No.1730223 View Reply Original Report

Its a good day /n/ bros. Just like a cop, our final goal of putting ourselves out of a job has come. Blow up the bridges, close all the roads. Now the average person can live anywhere! Huzzah!

WE ARE ALL GONNA BECOME HONEYBEES!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzhREYOK0oo

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Anonymous Tue 23 Nov 2021 01:48:27 No.1734974 Report

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>>1734957
they're just toys for richfags

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Anonymous Thu 25 Nov 2021 17:42:47 No.1736027 Report

Quoted By: >>1737296

>>1730991
well, looks like they have an """update"""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzrGY22UE4

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Anonymous Mon 29 Nov 2021 08:29:42 No.1737296 Report

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>>1736027
Yay, a hobby drone with a foamie body. Multirotors don't scale up well. A cardboard box can be made into a cheap drone. This thing needs some real windtunnel and forward flight transition tests to be taken seriously. And I'm still waiting for someone to disregard meme batteries and put a generator onboard.

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Thu 02 Dec 2021 00:04:26 No.1738219 Report

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>>1730223
i fucking hate normies and their obsession with the manned drone idea
theres several very important reasons why our helicopters are not drones with seats
>quadcopters are extremely inefficient
>they cannot autorotate at all
>there is quadruple the failure points
if a single motor fails it will do a flip and crash
if the battery, electronics or whatever fail it will drop like a rock the way normies think helicopters do
a parachute will not save you unless you have decent altitude
if these things become mainstream (which im sure they will because normies are fucking retarded) they WILL kill alot of fucking people and will also fucking suck
why not convert a mosquito to electric like this guy did?
https://youtu.be/rNm_v6LRtSM
itl fly longer on a charge, be 100x more fun to fly, and if any motor or the battery fails it can just autorotate
i bet its cheaper too despite the only advantage quadcopters have is being cheap

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Thu 02 Dec 2021 00:06:21 No.1738220 Report

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>>1730248
simple hang glider with an edf and supine harness, would be dirt cheap and extremely effective for boarder hopping

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/bqg/ - Bike Questions General

Anonymous Sat 27 Nov 2021 20:46:15 No.1736744 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Modest wholesome christian family ride edition

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 21:46:53 No.1738182 Report

Quoted By: >>1738202

>best handlebar tape I've ever used (admittedly not a super long list)
>falls apart in a month because the outer and inner layers its made from separate and start sliding apart
Why it gotta be like this?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:07:45 No.1738191 Report

Quoted By: >>1738196 >>1738218

Why do professional cyclists have their seat tubes so high?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:37:43 No.1738196 Report

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>>1738191
Their legs are longer than regular people, that's why they become pros.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:57:43 No.1738202 Report

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>>1738182
Best bartape I used is Brooks leather bartape. Has good grip, feels nice to touch both in gloves and bare handed, doesn't disintegrate, looks great. Sweaty hands don't make it slippery either.
Sun can fade the colors but it just stays in shape.

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Anonymous Thu 02 Dec 2021 00:01:57 No.1738218 Report

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>>1738191
they usually ride a frame 1-2 sizes smaller than the manufacturer's recommendation with a longer stem to compensate

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American high-speed rail thread

Anonymous Sun 28 Nov 2021 03:03:08 No.1736825 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1738143

I want to believe

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 14:10:08 No.1738034 Report

Quoted By: >>1738138

>>1738027
unclear if arguing against trains or automobiles. lol

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 20:42:38 No.1738138 Report

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>>1738034
Trains

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 20:50:15 No.1738143 Report

Quoted By: >>1738155

>>1736825
Too late. The cyclists pushed hard for the 'rails to trails' initiatives. Scooped up all the unused, straight, level right-of-ways and made bike trails out of them.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 21:00:56 No.1738155 Report

Quoted By:

>>1738143
At least in MA the railroads still maintain rights to at least some of the trails. However it’s pretty unlikely they will ever be used

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:57:29 No.1738217 Report

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>>1737034
Just wait for the Sino-American war

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Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 08:52:56 No.1704725 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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What radicalized you?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 13:09:53 No.1738001 Report

Quoted By: >>1738136

>>1737945
>Dense areas aren't necessarily high value areas
this company completely disproves this argument
https://www.urbanthree.com/

> I blame the idea on the "SimCity problem", the idea where armchair city planners strictly think about cities in numbers and data points that have little ground in reality.
ah yes, the idea that taking data and statistics on real world things does not correlate to the real world. I blame this problem on the fact that cagers have zero capability of thinking beyond their forgone conclusions and get mad when someone insults their trucky truck

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 20:33:27 No.1738133 Report

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>>1737954
There is no way that this is true unless your parents were some sort of cultists.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 20:37:03 No.1738136 Report

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>>1738001
>this company completely disproves this argument
Some website advertising their "services" doesn't prove anything
>someone disagreed with me, ree ree cagers
Of course there's correlation to data and statistics, but it's vastly oversimplified. The problem is taking those "vastly oversimplified" statistics and then trying to apply them back to the real world.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 20:37:06 No.1738137 Report

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>>1737996
Sounds like a straw man argument to me

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:55:25 No.1738216 Report

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>>1737818
>>1737996
The problem with light rail in "car-centric" cities is that it ends up becoming a victim of its own success. Dallas and Houston both have this issue:
>after years of politics, city approves first light rail line in large, sprawling city
>light rail line goes where people want to go, connecting major employment centers with usable park and rides, attracting a middle to upper class clientele that would never ride buses ordinarily (removing cars from road)
>impressive passengers-to-mile ratio
>politicians get in their head that light rail needs a massive expansion based on first line's success
>new light rail goes to less affluent parts of town and basically serve as more expensive bus lines, cannibalizing the bus lines (and the bus budget) and doing nothing to take cars off the road
>new light rail lines never reach the numbers of the original
>passengers-to-mile ratio plummets, cost exponentially grows
>light rail goes from a useful showpiece to a cautionary tale

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Anonymous Sun 03 Oct 2021 08:14:36 No.1715686 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Why aren't airships like the one by the sky pirates in laputa castle in the sky built?

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:29:08 No.1738207 Report

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>>1728038
in theory this would give us the ultimate airships but like have you seen how thick the walls of a vaccuum chamber need to be to not get crushed by the atmosphere?
our normal airships only work because we fill a lightweight film with a lightweight gas at equal or slightly higher pressure
it is possible we may be able to make vaccum airship drone things that fly at very high altitudes where the pressure is weak enough that a plastic film wont implode, these could perhaps be used on other planets like mars where the atmosphere is thin and the gravity is weak so its still a technology with potential

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:33:51 No.1738209 Report

Quoted By: >>1738212 >>1738213

>>1738206
thats literally what the OP is
the lift is poorer than helium, you need extra weight for burners and fuel, and its hard to heat a large volume evenly

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:36:09 No.1738212 Report

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>>1738209
oh, well that sucks, still cool as hell tho

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:37:10 No.1738213 Report

Quoted By: >>1738215

>>1738209
what if you used electric inductive heating elements like long wires inside the envelope?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:50:55 No.1738215 Report

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>>1738213
the wires are weight, the batteries are weight, and fossil fuels are still currently more energy dense than batteries

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Anonymous Tue 23 Nov 2021 13:42:29 No.1735136 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

Quoted By: >>1738203

How do the aviation nerds here feel about electric planes?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 17:23:27 No.1738084 Report

Quoted By: >>1738210

*cough*

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:59:50 No.1738203 Report

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>>1735136
badass but im more interested in microlights / ultralights, i dont really give a shit about rich people shit no matter how impressive it is
electric paramotors like the open ppg are far more exiting
an electric chinook would be my dream plane

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:08:23 No.1738204 Report

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electric motor gliders are cool as fuck and already a well established area of electric aviation

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:33:51 No.1738210 Report

Quoted By: >>1738214

>>1738084
>Headwing above 50 km/h
Guess we cannot move today son.

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:38:44 No.1738214 Report

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>>1738210
agree that thing is retarded, i love airships but they are never being used for heavy lifting, atleast not on earth, whoever "designed" this shit is a moron

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 16:00:51 No.1738070 View Reply Original Report

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>"Um sir, I'll have you know serving beverages is only a very small part of our job. We are highly trained individuals and have the utmost authority over you while you're on my aircraft, do I make myself clear?"

Been on hundreds of flights. Have literally never seen them do anything other than serve beverages. Are they full of shit?

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 17:34:24 No.1738091 Report

Quoted By: >>1738208

>ywn seduce a stewardess and pound her in the WC
some people get to live the dream

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 18:13:28 No.1738095 Report

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thats right op. and your teachers all live at the school, too.

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Not Your Dad REEEEE !!OS7PxlLkFR/ Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:19:43 No.1738205 Report

Quoted By: >>1738211

>>1738073
People at the absolute lowest rung of the socioeconomic pecking order, the ones who are too creepy and gross even to be allowed to work as front line staff, are socialized to shut up, obey, and submit. They get uncomfortable when they're interacting with service personnel in the customer role, because they don't know how to handle the social dynamic gracefully. Not only have they never been anyone's boss, they're rarely even the customer except when trying to navigate a retail purchase without getting hassled by security. They're completely at a loss to navigate the limits of what they can do and what they can expect/demand, all they have to go on is the experience of total submission that comes with being a minimum wage disposable not-even-a-cog in the machine, of following any order no matter how petty or unreasonable, it is not for them to question. When in the rare position to ask for something (anything, maybe a drink, maybe an answer to a question), the lack of a familiar role to play makes them extremely uncomfortable. Should they be abusive? Should they be magnanimous? Should they expect adoration? Resistance? Will people notice the awkwardness? Oh god what if they find out normally I'm the one who shuts up and obeys! What is going on here this isn't the natural order of things!?!?!

And so, to resolve their emotional turmoil what you will often see is that they lash out and attack the service staff, either by complaining about their lack of "qualifications" as if they're talking about a brain surgeon, or by insinuating that the person has made some major life error to be working in a service role. See also: tipping arguments on /ck/

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:32:50 No.1738208 Report

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>>1738091
I think the chances to do that from a Buziness/First class position were over already in the 80s.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 23:35:41 No.1738211 Report

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>>1738205
huh?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Oct 2021 09:57:45 No.1720953 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

Quoted By: >>1737841

my bike got stolen :(

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Anonymous Mon 29 Nov 2021 11:21:15 No.1737339 Report

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>>1734201
It's a good thing normalfaggots/ redditors / twittertrannies' opinions have never mattered, and will never matter. 4CHAN BANZAI

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Anonymous Tue 30 Nov 2021 22:07:56 No.1737777 Report

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>>1720962
In africa bikes are viewed as important and they actually have some respect for their purpose. Shitmerica thinks they're toys that get in the way of BIG BOY SUVS FOR MOMMY DRIVER!

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Anonymous Wed 01 Dec 2021 01:15:37 No.1737841 Report

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>>1720953

Look on the bright side OP
Someone got a new bike!

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:51:15 No.1738200 Report

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>>1721269
>>1721612
based

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:53:01 No.1738201 Report

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>>1728106
also based

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Anonymous Mon 25 Oct 2021 06:50:35 No.1724215 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

Quoted By: >>1738199

How do we solve the cycling audience problem?

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Anonymous Fri 19 Nov 2021 23:53:42 No.1733829 Report

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>>1724429
>a custom built racetrack for cycling is gay/boring
youre such a faggot anon lmfao, stop being a tryhard and live a little

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Anonymous Fri 19 Nov 2021 23:55:15 No.1733830 Report

Quoted By: >>1736779

>>1724435
>hoods pointing straight up
psychopath.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Nov 2021 23:00:34 No.1736779 Report

Quoted By: >>1736792

>>1733830
Tourist here. What are hoods, and why is them being up a bad thing?

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Anonymous Sat 27 Nov 2021 23:40:13 No.1736792 Report

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>>1736779
its a transphobic dog whistle. they're claiming that trans women aren't real women.

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lain !!JYiABFvW+d6 Wed 01 Dec 2021 22:43:42 No.1738199 Report

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>>1724215
ah so the rally crowd run in front of bicycles instead nowadays
>>1724219
pile ups never cease to crack me up

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/mg/ — Maritime General

Anonymous Mon 01 Nov 2021 14:53:21 No.1727090 View Reply Last 50 Original Report

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Lakes and Locks edition

Previous: >>1704913

Sticky:
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Anonymous Mon 29 Nov 2021 19:47:52 No.1737487 Report

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>>1735851
Mud tk21? Wtf the biggest osv ive been on had 8 of them. Cleaning and stripping automated. I never got this even on tankers. Pretty noice

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Anonymous Mon 29 Nov 2021 19:55:18 No.1737492 Report

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>>1737446
I wish I'd started down this path right away, gone offshore at 22 rather than at 27. Would have had more time to build up savings AND would have seen so many more places, now being at sea just sucks because I can barely get off the boat when we hit the dock and forget about leaving the dockyard at all.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Nov 2021 20:43:34 No.1737507 Report

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>>1737204
>>1737200
>>1737119
picrel

>>1737446
It got me a cozy officejob right now, so I kynd off steered it in the right direction, but boy those years were hard at sea. I think I would pick a better engineering degree if I had a chance to go back. Like automation and stuff like that.

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Anonymous Tue 30 Nov 2021 00:33:55 No.1737569 Report

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>>1735653
At the moment this is really the closest place to me that is within the maritime industry for work, so I'm just going to have to deal with it. I'm looking into just saving up from this job and moving away from LA, maybe to NC or VA and getting a maritime job there, but thanks for the info

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