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Total Time is only one portion of the suckage of air travel though. It's that long window of time where you are cramped in a small seat, potentially with large
by krisroadruck 9y ago
Total Time is only one portion of the suckage of air travel though. It's that long window of time where you are cramped in a small seat, potentially with large strangers spilling into your space from either side that I dislike the most. If I only have to deal with that bit for 30 minutes, the rest of the trip can take as long as it reasonably wants.
- icc97 9y agoNo more deep vein thrombosis. Or screaming kids kicking the back of your chair cause they've got nothing to do for 10 hours. London to Sydney would be a massive improvement because often you have to stop halfway. Plus you get all the benefits of paying for a Virgin Galactic trip
- dzhiurgis 9y agoAuckland to Vilnius is at least 3 flights and 24+ hours of flight time. Door to door is basically 2 days. Elon please save me.
- epaulson 9y agoHow often do you think you can find a rocket's worth of people who want to go from Auckland to Vilnius?
- njarboe 9y agoHard to know how many would go at one shot. A few hundred? One could move cargo also. Maybe once a day? For a 40 minute trip, maybe a lot more. Depends on the price. The thing is, the infrastructure a rocket needs might be way less than big airplanes. Super chilled CH4 and O2 and a small pad and tower. Along with doing say 20 flights per day, these things can move around the globe easily and go where the demand is.
- dzhiurgis 9y agoHub and spoke model. I can't imagine being more than 5 spaceports per continent. Most popular destination from Auckland would be London. I don't mind taking Ryanair from there.