Our correspondent Augustus wrote: “China is one of those countries that has a strong urge to break records. I love those countries, they innovate and keep surprising me and the rest of the world. A feat China is trying to achieve for some time now is the train speed record. And my guess is they’ll break it. The Chinese are currently developing a Maglev train that will be able to reach speeds of up to 600 (!) mph. Seriously, six hundred, and not on salt! That’s just 147 mph less than the speed of sound. Which I guess is the next step for the Chinese. Just image riding a train and breaking the sound barrier, how cool would that be?” (not cool, Ed.)
The laboratory at Southwest Jiaotong University said the train will be developed over the next three years. The Maglev train will travel in a giant vacuum tube to limit air friction. This project, of course, does come attached with a small price tag: The setup will cost about $4.72 million for each mile. And since this beauty is able to travel six hundred of them in one hour, it’ll probably cost a few billion just to get up to speed. But it’s worth it.”
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