Thursday, February 10, 2022

The Schwebebahn

 How awesome was German engineering? Check out this colorized 1902 footage of a "flying train" by the Wupper River. 


Compare it to the scenery today. Yes, the flying train still operates. 

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pretty cool knowing how far we have fallen ain't it ? Think about where we were as a people back then. Then gubment's round the world went stupid. Strange how tech grows more genius by the day and humanity goes more stupid by the hour. Yey !!

Anonymous said...

I have been doing quite a bit of AI upscaling with my Nvidia RTX 3090 and the Topaz Gigapixel AI Suite. Sometimes it takes a few passes, but I have successfully cleaned and upscaled a lot of VHS and rare Laserdisc sourced video.

AI is really amazing. Deep fakes are really interesting too.

Anonymous said...

Germans probably had us beat technologically in WWII. We were like Grant in the Civil War with our seemingly inexhaustible supply of troops in a war of attrition.

Anonymous said...

Lmao @ 0 comments

Anonymous said...

1:57 : Deep fakes are more scary than interesting. IMO. We got enough de-evolved thin skinned genius fools out there making all kinds of trouble.

Anonymous said...

I wish we had the extensive rail systems and public transit options, that they have in Europe.

Anonymous said...

They could make the trains run on time.

Anonymous said...

Enjoyed the rail system across the pond while serving. Granted that sometimes they would be a little overcrowded.

Anonymous said...

@3:27
I’ve read that the low IQ types of the early 20th century were as equally afraid of cars as you all are of AI and deep fakes, and deep learning.
I guess you boomer types are so conditioned to believe television that it is truly disturbing to feel as if you can’t trust it anymore.

Anonymous said...

Great find Kingfish! On my drive out to the Reservoir in bumper to bumper traffic, I'm going to imagine taking a similar flying train trip over the Pearl River and being treated to nature out the window.

Anonymous said...

America has built a lot of interesting things like this for events like The World’s Fair. Problem is that cities like Chicago would often own the land and would neglect the properties until they were a loss and then later tear down the derelict Worlds Fair buildings and construct public housing on it.

Anonymous said...

@2:55 PM
You ever notice how whenever you laugh at the lack of comments on a particular post Kingfish will return to leave a string of comments acting like it’s different posters? Acting like he has more than 6 or 7 “blog readers.” Like we don’t know it’s him.

Kingfish said...

You're funny. Except for when most of those comments were made I didn't have access to my phone. My favorite was when you accused me of making comments under other names while I was getting a root canal. You have no proof that I do it because none exists and none exists because I don't do it. Keep spitting out the conspiracies like a good truther or birther.

Anonymous said...

@9:12
Somewhere on the webs is a blog exactly like this one and Kingfish is just copy/pasting everything including the comments.

Krusatyr said...

Some here don't realize most of Europe lacked the prosperity, resources and artful engineering of the Belle Epoque between WWI & WWII and a few other similar localized golden eras. In that sense, the film was unique and its subject rare.

Recall that this was a time just a few years after many Central European/ Russian peasants and industrial slaves had bought into Marxism, an even more cruel and lethal form of industrial slavery and peasant abuse.

BTW, considering known history, should we not all be awestruck that we have an entire political party along with elected officials, like our president and mayor, force feeding us Marxism today?

Only good, possibly private, education can save MS. Demand choice and vouchers!

Anonymous said...

Dang it, KF, stop taking the bait.

The video is a great addition to JJ. the best since you put me on to Nightwish and Floor Jansen.

The Europeans have wonderful trains, but they don't have our vast spaces.

Anonymous said...

Great post KF.



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