Train takes a bullet
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a printer? Does it run out of ink all the time? |
| 0:02.7 | And you're like, oh gosh, I really need to print something. |
| 0:05.2 | What if you just had all the ink? |
| 0:07.2 | Brother, the printer company wants to hook you up |
| 0:10.2 | with a whole year's worth of ink, maybe even two years worth of ink. |
| 0:15.2 | All at once. Learn more at ChangeTheWayUInk.com. |
| 0:20.5 | The Wink is silent. |
| 0:30.0 | What's it like? |
| 0:31.5 | What's it like? |
| 0:33.5 | What's it like? |
| 0:35.5 | What's it like? |
| 0:37.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome on board the Hockerdy Grushing Transit. |
| 0:42.0 | Go to Japan and you can take the Shinkansen, a bullet train that whisks you from Tokyo to Kyoto |
| 0:47.7 | at 200 miles now. |
| 0:49.7 | We wish you a pleasant journey. |
| 0:51.3 | Go to Germany and after 25 years of planning 29 bridges built, 22 tunnels board, |
| 1:03.3 | you can take high speed rail between Berlin and Munich, almost 400 miles and under four hours. |
| 1:12.6 | Go to California and you can... |
| 1:16.4 | You can drive between Los Angeles and San Francisco. |
| 1:20.9 | It'll take anywhere between six and ten hours depending on traffic and whether you choose to take |
| 1:24.4 | the five through the Central Valley and smell of a commoner or injure the gridlock on the 101 for |
| 1:28.7 | eternity. |
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