Relaxing train travel
The Chinese rock. They built this train that can make every single person on board sick. If I rode it, I wouldn't be so alone with my severe motion sickness. That's awesome. And it goes to Tibet. Subliminal message about Tibetans? Maybe. Here's an article about the sicko train:
It's an interesting article with little jabs at China here and there, including this:
One Tibetan passenger asked a Western reporter what the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, thought of the train. The man, who asked not to be identified by name, said that with China's Internet monitoring, it was too dangerous for him to search news Web sites for the information himself. (AP, 7/3/2006)
I would've included a photo of this awesome train, but do you really want to see:
Older passengers, looking uncomfortable, were lying down, children were crying and some were being sick in the bathrooms. (The Times of India, 7/3/2006)
I didn't think so. Although, this would've been cool to see amongst all the vomiting:
...ballpoint pens and bags of processed food burst due to the low air pressure. Laptop computers and digital music recorders failed, because moving parts in their disc drives are cushioned by tiny air bags that break at high altitude. (AP, 7/3/2006)
If train travel was this exciting and violent (and fun!) in America, Amtrak would be raking it in instead of bleeding it. Stupid, boring Amtrak.
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