Re:Will we ever fly supersonically over land?
by harimau777 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:41PM
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Unless you can move your entire family, then movement implies travel at least twice a year in the US.
Re:Will we ever fly supersonically over land?
by throw0101a on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:59PM
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> […] then movement implies travel at least twice a year in the US.
Under the current regime of 'cheap' travel in which the externalities of climate change are probably not taken into account.
"Travel" or "movement"?
I am the first generation to be born in the country I live in. When my (grand)parents left, they left under the assumption that there would be no, or maybe very little, chance of going back to the Old Country. They took a boat over the course of many weeks to traverse an ocean; an era before cheap air travel.
When people move in the future, to hopefully have a better life than where they current are, it may be that they may not be able to go back (as easily) to where they came from.
The fact that we can now travel back and forth cheaply over great distances could simply be a temporary blip in human history, and we should perhaps consider this era could be ending. You can still move, but it will be more 'permanent' going forward, and travel is will be less frequent/easy/cheap/etc.