Space Hobo on Nostr: https://youtu.be/si9iqF5uTFk?t=298 ← Admiral (then Capt.) Grace Hopper on ...
https://youtu.be/si9iqF5uTFk?t=298 ← Admiral (then Capt.) Grace Hopper on #CarBrain:
> ...and I m quite worried about something. When we built all those roads and the shopping centers and all the other things, and provided for automobile transportation, we forgot something. We forgot transportation as a whole: we only looked at the automobiles.
> Because of that, today, when we need them again, the road beds of the railroads are falling apart. They're dumping polyvinyl chloride around the countryside.
> If we wanted to move our tanks from the center of the country to the ports to ship them overseas, there are no flat cars left because we move all the cars on those racks on the roads now. If we wanted to move coal to replace oil, there are probably not enough hopper cars to move both the grain crop and the coal.
> And the truth of the matter is we've done a LOUSY job of managing transportation as a whole.
> ...and I m quite worried about something. When we built all those roads and the shopping centers and all the other things, and provided for automobile transportation, we forgot something. We forgot transportation as a whole: we only looked at the automobiles.
> Because of that, today, when we need them again, the road beds of the railroads are falling apart. They're dumping polyvinyl chloride around the countryside.
> If we wanted to move our tanks from the center of the country to the ports to ship them overseas, there are no flat cars left because we move all the cars on those racks on the roads now. If we wanted to move coal to replace oil, there are probably not enough hopper cars to move both the grain crop and the coal.
> And the truth of the matter is we've done a LOUSY job of managing transportation as a whole.