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"Pacific Coast High Speed Rail" is the general term for proposed High Speed Rail lines through the Pacific Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California. Depending on the plan, it can even extend to Vancouver, British Columbia and Tijuana, Mexico. One of the main ideas of connecting California and the Pacific Northwest by High Speed Rail is that both areas are population dense, "high tech" areas and that it makes sense for people to zip between San Francisco and Portland at 200+ mph so we can have high tech synergy between high tech areas and so on. While some advocates of Pacific Coast High Speed Rail are just crayoning, I have seen it mentioned as a serious proposal in legitimate news outlets, like The Guardian

I am a train enthusiast, and I have ridden the current Amtrak train, the Coast Starlight, between Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area many times. And the idea of a faster

It was called the Ulam Spiral, sometimes the Prime Spiral, but the people who thought about it as just about "prime numbers" were missing the point. But of course, none of them had actually been out here, in the endless grey sea where the numbers went on forever. A dark, sometimes choppy, sometimes smooth sea where numbers weren't quantities, but just patterns, and where everything was so still, and so silent. But where there were still patterns. I like

APALACHEE (apparently a Choctaw name, = “people on the other side”)

A tribe of North American Indians of Muskhogean stock. They have been known since the 16th century, and formerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. About 1600 the Spanish Franciscans founded a successful mission among them, but early in the 18th century the tribe suffered defeat at the hands of the British, the mission

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