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You have to start somewhere before you can build towards an economy of scale that makes it affordable. If people used your same logic about regular airplanes, w

You have to start somewhere before you can build towards an economy of scale that makes it affordable. If people used your same logic about regular airplanes, we wouldn't be using them today.

michaelmrose 4mo ago
Supersonic flight will never be suitable for the masses compared to normal flight due to basic physics. It will always require much more expensive planes and more fuel. It's not more viable now wealth inequality just means that there are more rich people to benefit.
- logicchains 4mo ago
  >Supersonic flight will never be suitable for the masses compared to normal flight due to basic physics. It will always require much more expensive planes and more fuel. You could have used the exact same argument for normal flight 100 years ago. Supersonic flight being more expensive than normal flight doesn't mean it will always be too expensive for the masses unless you assume there'll be no more economic growth ever.
  - throwaway85825 4mo ago
    Physics doesnt change. It will always cost more energy to fly faster.
    - fragmede 4mo ago
      Relatively, absolutely, but look at computers. Yes, more computing still costs more than less computing. Physics hasn't changed, but the cost of computers has. I have, in my hand, for part of a couple months of middle class wages, more computing power than existed in the world in 1960.
      - throwaway85825 4mo ago
        Yes and now wafer costs are going up for n+1 node, because of physics reasons.
- dividedbyzero 4mo ago
  There are 28 000 passenger flights in the US every day, imagine the noise under major corridors if a large percentage of them was supersonic.
- budman1 4mo ago
  What are we talking about? 5% more? 200% more?
dylan604 4mo ago
I'm still waiting for Tesla's plan to come true where the rich paid for development before scaling up brings the prices down. The luxury economy of scale is about as realistic trickle down economy
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- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
  > still waiting for Tesla's plan to come true where the rich paid for development before scaling up brings the prices down The low-volume, high-priced rich-person toys (Roadster) finance the scaling up that enables lower-priced mass-manufactured product (Model 3).

You have to start somewhere before you can build towards an economy of scale that makes it affordable. If people used your same logic about regular airplanes, we wouldn't be using them today.

michaelmrose 4mo ago

Supersonic flight will never be suitable for the masses compared to normal flight due to basic physics. It will always require much more expensive planes and more fuel. It's not more viable now wealth inequality just means that there are more rich people to benefit.

logicchains 4mo ago
>Supersonic flight will never be suitable for the masses compared to normal flight due to basic physics. It will always require much more expensive planes and more fuel. You could have used the exact same argument for normal flight 100 years ago. Supersonic flight being more expensive than normal flight doesn't mean it will always be too expensive for the masses unless you assume there'll be no more economic growth ever.
- throwaway85825 4mo ago
  Physics doesnt change. It will always cost more energy to fly faster.
  - fragmede 4mo ago
    Relatively, absolutely, but look at computers. Yes, more computing still costs more than less computing. Physics hasn't changed, but the cost of computers has. I have, in my hand, for part of a couple months of middle class wages, more computing power than existed in the world in 1960.
    - throwaway85825 4mo ago
      Yes and now wafer costs are going up for n+1 node, because of physics reasons.
dividedbyzero 4mo ago
There are 28 000 passenger flights in the US every day, imagine the noise under major corridors if a large percentage of them was supersonic.
budman1 4mo ago
What are we talking about? 5% more? 200% more?

dylan604 4mo ago

I'm still waiting for Tesla's plan to come true where the rich paid for development before scaling up brings the prices down. The luxury economy of scale is about as realistic trickle down economy

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JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
> still waiting for Tesla's plan to come true where the rich paid for development before scaling up brings the prices down The low-volume, high-priced rich-person toys (Roadster) finance the scaling up that enables lower-priced mass-manufactured product (Model 3).