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> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR. Is your average human's health and safety really compatible
by yock 8y ago
> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR.
Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration required for ballistic travel?
- reaperducer 8y agoAt one time people thought that any transport faster than a horse would cause the human body to fly apart. Engineering finds a way.
- notahacker 8y agoWe're in the opposite position from people that doubted whether the human body could cope with transport faster than a horse. We have pretty good data for what very high G-forces do to the human body and what the failure rates of rocket launches are, and neither are compatible with routine commercial flight.
- robbiep 8y agoIf you consider that the early jets (ie comet) had a tendency to disintegrate, and take a speculative view that rockets have largely been in the comet era for perhaps a prolonged period (40-50 years!) and take another speculative leap that current technology/space companies are going to improve this by orders of magnitude (lots of ifs) then it isn’t too far removed. And the cost of a flight would be 300-400k in fuel, which means that tickets would be roughly premium economy cost or business cost. Business would eat up day trip returns from ny to shanghai in a heartbeat. Maybe people would have to wear a g force suit like pilots?