The CA High-Speed Rail price tag has ballooned 700% to $231 billion.
We still have 0 trains & 0 tracks. So where’s the money going?
To consultants for luxury travel, cigar bars, & tiki bars!
The pattern of mismanagement continues. This project needs to end.
AB = BC = CA
Three square beams meet pairwise at right angles and appear to bound an equilateral triangle, yet no such solid can exist in ordinary Euclidean three-space.
Each corner, taken by itself, is an entirely ordinary joint; the closed circuit assigns incompatible depths and therefore cannot close.
Oscar Reutersvärd first assembled the figure from cubes in 1934; Roger Penrose, independently in 1954, called the resulting tribar impossibility in its purest form. A real construction can still produce the identical image, but only from one carefully chosen viewpoint.