Something Japanese sounding: Junichiro Yomama (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} foidofjapan) wrote,@ 2004-02-05 08:11:00 |
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Well, last week I got to go to the biggest computer security conference in Japan last week to make a presentation. It was in Sendai, which is about an hour an half north of Tokyo by Shinkansesn(or bullet train). It was neat to ride one of them, they go about 100 mph(or something like that, I think it's a little less), however whenever we went into a tunnel or passed another train it made my ears pop like in an airplane. Makes me wonder how they would plan on dealing with this on those maglev trains they are considering building which go much faster. Do they pressurize the cabin/ They built one for like a whole 10 miles or so in Shanghai, so I doubt they other trains pass by very often, but still I would like to see how they do it. I think that the trains could be a very good domestic long-distance travel alternative here in the US, take much less fuel(even if run off a generator) than both cars and airplanes, so it could really help limit the amount of fuels we need to go create wars for. The conference went all right, most of the presentations were in Japanese, so I couldn't understand them. My presentation(in English) went pretty well, got some interesting questions. I also got to eat fish paste, good stuff, and I got a mikuji, which is a fortune, and I got the "great love" one, good, I need some luck. It doesn't look like I'm going to be finding much love here, I can already here Erin Wenzel making fun of me, good times, good times.
Enjoy!
Well, last week I got to go to the biggest computer security conference in Japan last week to make a presentation. It was in Sendai, which is about an hour an half north of Tokyo by Shinkansesn(or bullet train). It was neat to ride one of them, they go about 100 mph(or something like that, I think it's a little less), however whenever we went into a tunnel or passed another train it made my ears pop like in an airplane. Makes me wonder how they would plan on dealing with this on those maglev trains they are considering building which go much faster. Do they pressurize the cabin/ They built one for like a whole 10 miles or so in Shanghai, so I doubt they other trains pass by very often, but still I would like to see how they do it. I think that the trains could be a very good domestic long-distance travel alternative here in the US, take much less fuel(even if run off a generator) than both cars and airplanes, so it could really help limit the amount of fuels we need to go create wars for. The conference went all right, most of the presentations were in Japanese, so I couldn't understand them. My presentation(in English) went pretty well, got some interesting questions. I also got to eat fish paste, good stuff, and I got a mikuji, which is a fortune, and I got the "great love" one, good, I need some luck. It doesn't look like I'm going to be finding much love here, I can already here Erin Wenzel making fun of me, good times, good times.
Enjoy!
