Re:Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight
by trhway on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:55PM
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>Does it make sense to distinguish between cattle- and bizniz-class in the context of hypothetical hypes like Starship?
i believe in the almighty symmetry breaking power of the price differentiation (or like it was said in one Soviet movie "There is no goal when the society doesn't practice differentiation based on the color of one's pants")
>ballistics dictate a full seat/couch anyways?
technically you're right, and thus instead of 100 (i used 500/100 just based on ballpark comparison of Starship payload volume vs. 747) there would be more like 300+ business - good for SpaceX :)
>applicants have sworn their fealty to their elonzniak overlord by opting into NetJets style access card?
and 1000000 credits gets you around the Moon, couple 00 more - around the Mars. The future is bright. To some.
With hypothetical hype I mean the assumption this will be used for ballistic pax transport.
What would be the differentiator, if the ballistics dictate a full seat/couch anyways? The cattle in a mesh net, the bizniks in full divan? Would it make sense when any conceivable trip would be three hours max? Not to mention constraints mandated by entities like FAA for ... I don't know ... spatial arrangement regarding speed of evacuation to the emergency chutes, whatever?
edit: Thinking about it, would they even bother? Or would it rather be something like one seat fits all, after the applicants have sworn their fealty to their elonzniak overlord by opting into NetJets style access card? Similar to how Starlink is 99 universal credits everywhere?