Why do we put up with this crap?
Why do we put up with this crap?
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My father's generation thought planes would just get faster and faster and by now we'd be able to fly from NYC to Tokyo in 40 minutes
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Concorde wasn't far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.
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Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. . .
The concorde took 180 minutes (3 hours) to travel from New York to London (3,000 nautical miles).
Ignoring range limits, a trip from New York to Tokyo (5,861 nautical miles) at that speed would take 351 minutes (5.8 hours).
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Sadly, missile technology usurped bombers, so there was no reason for the government to pay for the development of large, ultra-fast aircraft after the early 70s
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Just put seats on the missile then? I don't know I'm not an engineer
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Elon already thought of that
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