Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back
by greglindahl on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @04:19PM
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The reliability of "things that go to space" is much, much lower than civilian airplanes.
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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back
by nickjarboe on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:04PM
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True. But think of the status of going from point to point anywhere on earth in less than an hour. How much risk is that worth?
Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back
by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @08:34PM
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I think Elon said there is probably a market for delivering stuff to antipodes in under an hour, price doesn't matter. It's not a large market, and you don't get a steady daily business, but there will always be demand for it.
Until, of course, this sort of thing becomes trivial and super-reliable, and then the price will drop through the floor.