Re:Will we ever fly supersonically over land?
by Gibbon1 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:05AM
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I'd like to see a graph of miles flown per year by decile.
internet foo
Found this. As I suspected, hockey stick graph.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1579/airlines.aspx
Half the people in the US don't fly at all. 25% fly 1-2 times a year. People that don't fly at all, and people that fly 1-2 times year. Probably wouldn't be much impacted if they had to take a high speed train instead of a plane.
It’s not a strange argument. Read the discussion again, which starts with the thesis
> All overland passenger transport should be rail.
Then it was claimed that this is impossible. My argument is saying it’s possible to have rail replace rail, for example if air travel was severely restricted.
If there was no air travel, I would just travel a lot less. If you want to argue that the environmental cost of air travel is too great to allow it to happen is one thing, but done act like it wouldn’t make the travel experience a lot worse.