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Re:Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars by zardo on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:12PM (#13582236)
>Flying is not a valid commute solution and never will be because of physics. All things equal, the energy requirements to change elevation will be too great to justify adoption.

Which is why birds only ever fly long distances, if it's just a few miles they hop it.

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Re:Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars by slededit on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:19PM (#13586403)
To be fair, birds neither have wheels nor spent most of their evolution in a world with paved roads.
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Re:Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars by zardo on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:48AM (#13590580)
But that doesnt support my snarky comment, so I'll just say all abstractions are leaky and stand by it.
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