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Why take a plane to Europe with 300 pax when you can take an oceanliner with 7000 pax , fewer degrees of freedom, more energy efficient and use ports and harbor
by hammock 1y ago
Why take a plane to Europe with 300 pax when you can take an oceanliner with 7000 pax , fewer degrees of freedom, more energy efficient and use ports and harbors that have existed for 1000s of years rather than building new runways and introduce noise pollution?
- oersted 1y agoIndeed, individuals optimise for latency not throughput. They may be willing to go for high-throughput low-latency options if the cost-savings are significant, but that is often not the case.
- general1726 1y agoBut when you want to roundtrip transport 1M people a day, then you are kind of missing space in the air.
- aunty_helen 1y agoThere’s 20k planes in the air at any one time. You can do the maths from here.
- iand675 1y agoTo be fair, I absolutely would take ocean liners for this purpose if such a thing existed. The closest that you can get on this front is basically seasonal route switches for cruise liners. The thing is, cruise lines price gouge on WiFi, so I'm not really able to work while taking the slow route, and I'm also having to pay food, lodging, etc. The latency itself / limited freedom for a week or two, I don't mind. But it's the other expenditures and tradeoffs that are rather hard to stomach.