Anonymous #1 19w

Maglev trains forever.

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Anonymous #3 19w

Shinkansen!!! 🚅

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Anonymous #1 19w

新幹線!! All the way! We need Japanese insight in best rail practices. 🙂‍↕️

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We’ll have them work on mapping and terrain work and Japanese conductor and maintenance crew workshops. 🙂‍↕️

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Anonymous OP 18w

Actually fascinating fact one of the best ways we’ve found to map optimal train routes is to grow slime mould and give it food sources at each station and watch the path it chooses to grow.

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Anonymous #1 18w

Wait, trubiz!? Have any good references for me to read into? 👀

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Anonymous #7 18w

Yeah, I get it! Trains aren’t in my wheelhouse of interest very much, but I love when people have a fixation on it and study these things. Diversity of interests is just a net-gain and is how we continue to develop!

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Anonymous OP 18w

If you google “slime mold trains” bunch of articles come right up, on how it grows a nearly identical network to the Tokyo subway system, using oat flakes 🤣

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Anonymous #1 18w

Makes me wish my city actually went forward with and finished building the network they started constructing… now we just have the old tunnel downtown. 🫩

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Anonymous OP 18w

totally, the world needs people who can organically feel passionate enough about a subject to become super knowledgeable about it. plus even aside from any functionality to society, i think it’s an admirable trait

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Anonymous OP 18w

(not that positive stereotypes can’t also be burdensome ofc, but fortunately it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing where people Expect us to be like, load-bearing geniuses or something lol)

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