kmanmx
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This is what annoys me about living here...
So I am reading about Hyperloop. There are a bunch of trials going on in the US, Spain, India, Dubai, Canada. They're doing feasibility studies, trials, and plans to commercialize asap.
Meanwhile the UK point of view: "Last year, the Department for Transport said that it would be impossible to launch a hyperloop in Britain in the next few years, and that the technology is at least two decades away. "
For ****s sakes. There is no ambition or risk taking in this country. Everything has to be mundanely safe and boring. No one dreams big in this country, no one will take risks, the word moonshot is not in the vocabulary here. Nobody wants the financial risk of something failing, so they don't try anything at all. Everything that happens here is already proven technology that happened somewhere else 10 to 20 years ago.
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You can basically distill it down to this mentality:
Americans: "What if it works?"
British: "What if it doesn't?"
So I am reading about Hyperloop. There are a bunch of trials going on in the US, Spain, India, Dubai, Canada. They're doing feasibility studies, trials, and plans to commercialize asap.
Meanwhile the UK point of view: "Last year, the Department for Transport said that it would be impossible to launch a hyperloop in Britain in the next few years, and that the technology is at least two decades away. "
For ****s sakes. There is no ambition or risk taking in this country. Everything has to be mundanely safe and boring. No one dreams big in this country, no one will take risks, the word moonshot is not in the vocabulary here. Nobody wants the financial risk of something failing, so they don't try anything at all. Everything that happens here is already proven technology that happened somewhere else 10 to 20 years ago.
edit:
You can basically distill it down to this mentality:
Americans: "What if it works?"
British: "What if it doesn't?"
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