{"id":98,"date":"2006-11-19T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/11\/stealth-train-uncloaks-on-google-earth\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:23:50","slug":"stealth-train-uncloaks-on-google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/11\/stealth-train-uncloaks-on-google-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth train uncloaks on Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when El Reg finds amusing items on Google Earth, like the <a title=\"China develops flying aircraft carrier | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/11\/16\/flying_aircraft_carrier\/\">levitating hyperspace aircraft carrier<\/a>, the <a title=\"Germany menaced by 50m insect | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/09\/28\/giant_insect\/\">50m-long German insect<\/a>, <a title=\"Flying car captured on Google Earth | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/01\/23\/flying_car\/\">flying cars<\/a> in Aus or the now-famous <a title=\"Dutch T hounds Google Earth topless sunbather | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/09\/21\/google_sunbather\/\">naked rooftop sunbather<\/a> (and the other one).<\/p>\n<p>Now we have <a title=\"Stealth train uncloaks on Google Earth | The Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/11\/09\/stealth_train\/\">a plausible explanation<\/a> for the lack of visible improvement in the UK&#039;s public transport infrastructure: The Cloaking Device.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stealth Train\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/stealth_train.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"338\" height=\"294\" alt=\"Stealth Train\" id=\"image97\" src=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/stealth_train.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those of us who&#039;ve been wondering where all of that cash the government poured into improving the UK&#039;s rail network actually went can take heart in the fact that, instead of squandering it on improved signalling and new track, Britain&#039;s rail operators actually used the money to develop the world&#039;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2006\/11\/09\/stealth_train.kmz\">stealth train<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Impressive stuff. The Eurostar in question is seen here decloaking as it approaches London&#039;s Waterloo station &#8211; presumably to avoid waiting passengers seeing it appear from thin air once at the platform. A quick bit of research by our black ops directorate revealed that the UK has in fact been operating stealth transport technology for some years, which explains why you never see a number 73 bus when you need one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when El Reg finds amusing items on Google Earth, like the levitating hyperspace aircraft carrier, the 50m-long German insect, flying cars in Aus or the now-famous naked rooftop sunbather (and the other one). Now we have a plausible explanation for the lack of visible improvement in the UK&#039;s public transport infrastructure: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[13,3,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}