>>510890707>You've never been to JapanI have the only thing outstanding I noticed was vending machines everywhere. They have a lot of roads to nowhere, random bridges, pointless dams, etc. Even the metro stops running at midnight for some reason, the only thing going for it is that the cities were all built within the last 20 years, but outside of that they're not maintaining much of everything so there's a mass exodus from the countryside to the cities. They didn't even have their cities connected to a sewer system until the 2000s, which may have been the only good product of this.
>ITER reactorI've heard about this ITER reactor for like a decade man. It's an international project that always gets put off for like a decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
>The initial international cooperation for a nuclear fusion project that was the foundation of ITER began in 1978[58][59] with the International Tokamak Reactor, or INTOR, which had four partners: the Soviet Union, the European Atomic Energy Community, the United States, and Japan.We almost had one in the 80s until Gorbochev happened. It was mostly a soviet project.
>Aqueducts, water, maglevThe US has the largest train network in the world, for personal transit there's planes anything extra for trains is just wasteful spending since shaving off 10 km/hr to maintain highly expensive HSR is a massive expense of labor for very little gain. The megadam that they have took like 60 years of planning to build from the 40s and was completed in 2006. China's aqueduct system is still in development let alone maintenance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Transfer_Project) and their cities still lack sewer systems. If the US is going to dedicate all of this money to development projects and give their time, private sector resources, education, engineers to experiment like this I'd like some greater result apart from Reagan bending over labor unions.
