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In article <330@hermix.UUCP>, jay@hermix.UUCP (Jay Skeer) writes:
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>   2) Transportation of goods
> Boxes usually don't complain about 13 hour plane rides.  And what needs
> delivery halfway across the planet with a tighter time frame?
> 

I for one can think of a lot of things that would benefit from much faster
transit times.
One example :  

I used to work for a company called Showlites.  They do most of the VERY LARGE
rock-n-roll tours in the world.  Based out of L.A.  They use a lot of custom
electronics in their moving lights, dimming systems, chain hoist control
systems, etc...  Some systems are very good, and require few spares on the road,
others require a good set of spares.  We were doing the Billy Joel tour in
Russia, when a motor control system case got dropped and run over with a
fork-lift.  In this case, ( digital contol lines to the chain hoists that
lift the equipment ) ( many scenic moves during the show ) it was possible to
get the stuff into the air with a small jury rigged unit, but not to run the
show.  Luckily in russia, all load-ins are done the day before the show.
(In the rest of the country the same day is the rule. )

We had less than 20 hours to get them a replacement unit.  And if you think 
that this is trivial, FED-EX does NOT go to moscow overnight, let alone
some city in russia that I cant even remember the name of.  Turns out that
we bought the controller a seat on an airplane to london, then paid somebody
there to carry it through customs to a seat on a plane to moscow, then paid
somebody there to carry it through customs to a seat on the plane for the final
destination.  They got the thing about 20 minutes before showtime.

2-3 hour travel time would have helped a lot.

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