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It’s 2025. I want to live in a future where we do cool things like enable the average person to take supersonic transport. Sure, there are some marginal benefit
by oceanplexian 1y ago
It’s 2025. I want to live in a future where we do cool things like enable the average person to take supersonic transport. Sure, there are some marginal benefits here and there but going faster shouldn’t need any special justification.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThe average person will never be able to afford to take SST. The physics make it so. It's also why commercial airliners are getting slightly slower and using engines with higher bypass ratios.
- Voultapher 1y agoIt's not cool that extinction rates are at 1000+x their baseline. Tech like this is even more energy intense than regular flying. I think "some marginal benefits here and there" and it's cool bro are not valid justifications for making this planet a worse place to live for all species.
- kaliqt 1y agoEnergy production is quite clean, particularly around nuclear. We should not be slowing things down.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- dehugger 1y agoYou want to strap a nuclear power plant to a super sonic plane?