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A lot of people thought this couldn’t happen. Difficult to overstate the enormity of this to the industry.
by jamiek88 7y ago
A lot of people thought this couldn’t happen.
Difficult to overstate the enormity of this to the industry.
- kayfox 7y agoWould the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.
- filmgirlcw 7y agoRenton sobs.
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoContext: https://www.historylink.org/File/1287 https://www.historylink.org/File/1287
- AlexCoventry 7y agoReally puts the current situation in perspective.
- drdeadringer 7y agoThere was a related chapter the last book of Robert J. Sawyer's "WWW Trilogy". The AI throughout the thread survives for long enough to see Humanity evacuate the Earth given Sol's transformation to swallow the inner planets. Copies of the Original AI had been spread across intersolar Human civilization, but the original technically speaking had to remain on Earth. That chapter was titled something along the lines of "Will the last human please turn off the sun" or similar [it's been at least 5 years for me on the reading].
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- keyle 7y ago"too big to fail" they said. "whatever it takes they will fix it". I'm personally glad this model is getting shelved. You'd just have a bad taste flying in one of those regardless of tweaked the design is or how good the software is going to be. I'm also glad this is happening because it's a win for humanity and a loss for bureaucracy. I have full confidence that the next model will be rock solid and much better overall.
- Aloha 7y agoThe next model is 10 years and north of a billion dollars away.
- keyle 7y agoThe next model would be drawn up already. They knew where it went wrong.
- Aloha 7y agoThe next model isn't a 737-something, it's an entirely new airplane, one that can replace the 737 and 757. There is nothing wrong with the MAX that is not fixable with software and some artful rebranding. But its still a 737, and comes with all of the discomfort and limitations thereof inherent to the platform. It's not a comfortable airplane to fly in, fly, and its limited in how fast you can evacuate it too.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoHow does the 737 restrict passenger evacuation?
- Xixi 7y agoA billion dollar would be dirt cheap for a clean sheet design. The MAX program (including its engine) is estimated at $2B-3B. For a clean sheet successor a safe assumption would be 7 to 8 years to EIS and $15B in investment.