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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016

      "You begin to touch heaven the moment you touch perfect speed. Not 1,000 mph, or a million, or light speed. Perfect speed is being there."

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    2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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      Most people who I talk to about transportation will, if they're feeling imaginative, admit that the perfect transportation is teleportation.

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    3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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      Now, teleportation is impossible, but we've imagined various ways it could work--the transporters in Star Trek, for instance.

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    4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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      For those not familiar, you go to the transporter room and it sends you anywhere you want (by tearing you apart & reassembling you on site)

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    5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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      The Theseus's Ship question of how your conscious mind jumps from one body to another is sometimes brought up by fans...

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    6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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      ...but in-universe, it's implied that the traveler's perspective is of standing in one place and having the world transform around you.

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016

      The closest approximation to this in the real world is probably the experience of riding an elevator, esp if it has glass walls.

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          It's not instantaneous--you feel the passage of time and see your motion through the building...

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          ...nor is it open-ended; you can't take the elevator anywhere you want, only within the building in question.

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          But the basic experience is kind of similar--you walk into this special room, and when you walk out, you're somewhere else.

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          It's like having a room on one floor of a building that's simultaneously on every floor of that building...

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          ...walk in on your floor, walk out on any other--walk in on any other, and walk back out on yours again.

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Flip this on its side and you have trains.

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Instead of a special room on the floor of a building, you have a special building in a neighborhood of a city.

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Lateral movement is much easier than vertical--you can move more people, and at higher speeds, and over far, far greater distances...

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        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          ...but the sensation is the same. You'll be "in teleportation" for longer than you would on an elevator, so have a seat, no need to stand...

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          ...there's more to see, too--glass elevators are uncommon, but passenger trains always have windows.

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        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          "Perfect speed is being there" The train doesn't have perfect speed--but by the time you get to your local station you're already halfway.

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        13. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Just like when you take an elevator--by the time you get to where the elevator is on *your* floor, you're pretty much done.

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        14. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Compare this to driving somewhere--nobody feels like half their trip is behind them just because they get to their car...

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        15. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          ...they don't get to relax yet, they still have to navigate and pay attention to *getting there* for however long the journey is.

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        16. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          With the train, with the elevator, with the transporter room...you just have to get to the nearest station, and the rest is taken care of.

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        17. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          It's this enchanting feeling; this compression of space and time which fascinates me more than anything else about trains.

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        18. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          The feeling, as a child, of being able to walk into Tsurukawa Station and walk out anywhere on the Odakyu Line.

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        19. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          The knowledge that with just one transfer, I could be anywhere in Tokyo. Two transfers; anywhere in Japan. Three; the world (via Narita).

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        20. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 14 Oct 2016
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          Standing on the platform at Tsurukawa, with the sensation that I already was anywhere that I could want to go--that is my Perfect Speedpic.twitter.com/fow5fPUs6Z

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