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- Current Entry: TRANSPORT
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- World transport consists of a wide range
- of vehicular carriers, from individual
- four-seat liquid nitrogen air-cushion
- vehicles to thousand-seat salt-cycle
- rockets. Public transport includes, in
- some places, ancient maglev tunnel
- transports along the old rails laid down
- in the early part of the 21st century
- and small feeder-line ground effect
- buses ranging in capacity from ten to
- two hundred seats. These vehicles also
- use liquid nitrogen technology. LN
- vehicles can achieve altitudes of up to
- fifty feet, depending on terrain, and
- have minimal impact on the biosphere,
- since the only effluent is gaseous
- nitrogen. Inside warrens, transport is
- by individual electric transports, which
- hug the walls at various levels. All
- such transport is under the control of
- the local node.
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