<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I have not looked into the business of a high-speed rail link between the Bay Area and LA. But even without having considered it, the cost problem is obvious to anyone who has gone over the Grapevine.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">A tunnel through that range of mountains certainly could be done, but the cost would be astronomical. And it is not obvious that it would last, given the tectonic forces that push up that range to this day. <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Anyway, by the time someone built a railroad, humans may have abandoned physical travel and either use something like Zoom or go by fiber and rent a body at their destination.<br></div><br>Keith<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 9:20 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg112941145473114253"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_112941145473114253WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> president says video is fake<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">  AI experts, can you tell if this is a deep fake?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DWkeQypEgI7/" target="_blank">Instagram</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"> The local news agency considers it true.  Transcript includes Newsom’s comment about having manipulated some of the revenue projections.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://katv.com/news/nation-world/resurfaced-2014-video-shows-newsom-calling-high-speed-rail-dream-unlikely-in-our-lifetime?ref=smdp.com&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Resurfaced 2014 video shows Newsom calling high-speed rail dream unlikely in our lifetime</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Also in there is Newsom’s prognostication that the high speed rail project is not going to materialize in our lifetime.  Newsom is several years my junior, having been born in 1967.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Damn.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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