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BlueSky post by user @hemlock.bsky.social that reads,

I am a transit maximalist. I believe that when a girl hornyposts from the other side of the country; I should be able to get on a maglev and arrive in her city before the prog is out of her system for no more than $40. All policy should bend to serve this goal.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 days ago

      Depends on where the horniness is coming from, if it’s from prog(esterone?) like the op said and it’s tied to hormonal cycles then you maybe got a day to get over there.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 days ago

        Yeah, surprisingly even at those speeds, you’re looking at over 4 hours from one side of the US to another.

        • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          4 days ago

          which is 2 hours 20 minutes faster than flying from jfk to lax, and the prog has a half life of between 9-16 hours with peak levels between 1-8 hours so in theory you could take the train and still have 4-5 hours to romp

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        No, you misunderstand. It is literally impossible, with current technology, to achieve the desired metric because of the sheer size of some countries.

        Even if you somehow managed to have a fleet of Blackbirds at your disposal for instant public transport, it would take well over an hour to reach one end of the US/Canada to the other, just as an example.

    • lad@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      What is unrealistic here is the target price, $40 for maglev to anywhere looks like a steal

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Hawaii is a 10/11 hour flight from certain parts of the us.

        Alaska is 11/12 hours to Florida, 14/15 to Puerto Rico.

        Even if you don’t want to include those, it’s 6/7 hours from Seattle to Miami.

        Yukon to Newfoundland is 6/7 hours.

        These exclude boarding times and such.

        Even if you went with current high speed trains, and exclude continental breaks between land masses, you’re talking about quite a few hours.

        Good luck staying horny that long.

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          What part of “all policy should bend to serve this goal” did you not understand? We’re not done 'til we have $40 hypersonic suborbital flights, and if it takes a greater than Manhattan Project or Apollo level of effort to get there then, damn it, that’s what we’ll have to do!