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Old 05-01-2016, 07:41 PM   #36 (permalink)
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It's a problem being solved at the same level of thinking that created it.

Alternatively: An Hyperloop sized to accommodate standard shipping containers, in the median. In train. No flat-car, just an air-tight puck that clips into the corner lifting lugs.

The space inside your typical cloverleaf would become a round-house that could switch 3 or 4 containers as a block.

All watched over by machines of loving grace.*
*Richard Brautigan
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