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Yeah it's not surprising. I'm kinda disappointed since I'd be excited about faster flights to Europe and Asia, and I would pay for it Since they're telling me
by chubot 5y ago
Yeah it's not surprising. I'm kinda disappointed since I'd be excited about faster flights to Europe and Asia, and I would pay for it
Since they're telling me it's 2029, what I really hear is 2030 or 2035, or never. So that means I'll probably be stuck on the same slow flights for more than a decade :-( It doesn't feel like this is a space where there is a lot of competition.
- burlesona 5y agoYou’re correct that there isn’t a lot of competition.
- njarboe 5y agoSpaceX's Starship could be.
- edgyquant 5y agoStarship isn’t going to compete with aerial flight nor is it even trying to...
- chromaton 5y agoSpaceX has said otherwise: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/nyc-to-shanghai-in-40-minutes-spacexs-goal-for-point-to-point-travel.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/07/nyc-to-shanghai-in-40-minute...
- hef19898 5y agoWill it compete in the air taxi market as well?
- edgyquant 5y agoLet me rephrase then: it will be decades before putting a human into orbit is cheaper than flying from one point to another on the surface (which can be done for a little more than a thousand dollars) if ever. So maybe SpaceX has said that, but the first part of my sentence still holds. SpaceX isn’t going to be competitive with air travel probably in my lifetime.
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