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I want to travel around the world in three hours, who is gonna get me there first?

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hypersonic passenger flight has some serious weaknesses. I'm not sure it will ever make sense when there's billions of people who need to be served and a finite planetary energy budget.

I could see billionaires doing it, and in theory they could even manage it in a green way (but don't hold your breath). Most Lemmings don't like the world working like that, though, and it's not really in the spirit of comparing it to municipal transport.

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