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I'll take the faster jet and be enjoying a drink in London before you even get your first "meal service". If you only care about comfort, why don't you take a

I'll take the faster jet and be enjoying a drink in London before you even get your first "meal service". If you only care about comfort, why don't you take a boat? A transoceanic trip for about $3k will get you an inside room and take ~12 days.

vehementi 13y ago
Are you sure you're replying to the right thread / post? Nobody said anything about only caring about comfort.
- ForHackernews 13y ago
  > I don't really care about going any faster > The problem I find flying is comfort.
  - micampe 13y ago
    "I don't care about going faster" != "I'm cool with going 36x slower"
  - vehementi 13y ago
    You only quoted text, did you mean to follow up with an edit to explain why that is relevant? OP said planes are currently fast enough and they want more comfort rather than more speed, not that comfort is the only priority and the planes can go any speed whatsoever. Could you explain your interpretation?
    - ForHackernews 13y ago
      > A wife asks her husband, a computer programmer; "Could you please go to the store for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6!" > A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk. > The wife asks him, "Why the hell did you buy 6 cartons of milk?" > He replied, "They had eggs."