 Neutrally buoyant vacuum tunnel submerged 150 to 300 feet beneath the Atlantic’s surface and anchored to the seafloor, through which zips a magnetically levitated train at up to 4,000 mph. It will cos $88 billion - $175 billion.
The idea is as wondrous as it is audacious: Get on a train at New York City’s Penn Station and hit Paris, London or Brussels just an hour later. “From an engineering point of view there are no serious stumbling blocks,” says Ernst Frankel, retired professor of ocean engineering at MIT.
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Crocodile Dundee’s Boomerang Bay Beach Club, opening May 7, brings the Australian spirit in a bigger and better way in 2005, giving guests an upscale water park experience.
Microchip Technology Introduces New Family of Highly Cost Effective Flash 8-bit PICŪ Microcontrollers, Doubles the Performance in Low-Voltage Designs. Ten New PIC18F Microcontrollers Deliver 40 MHz at 3 Volts and 32 to 128 Kbytes of Flash memory in 64- and 80-pin packages.
Hilton Hotels Corporation announced the launch of the newly-designed Hilton (Nachrichten) Technology Room, a fully-functioning guestroom “laboratory” for gathering customer feedback on new and emerging technologies. The room is a testament to Hilton Hotels (Nachrichten) Corporation’s commitment to satisfying customers with industry-leading innovations in comfort, convenience and control.