SpaceX's Elon Musk is proposing a rocket for a moon base and travel to Mars as soon as 2024. https://usat.ly/2xGJRG9 pic.twitter.com/51klcJfb1G
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FedEx could use this to offer LA to Tokyo by 10am the previous day.
I think I saw this same headline blazed across the cover of Popular Mechanics back in 1959 when I was 4 years old!
Yes, but back in 1959, they really meant 25 minutes travel time. They did not have the TSA to work its magic.
Touché
Better fix the blowing up part first.
You go first
Bet that's an expensive flight.
Am I the only person who sees Elon Musk as Lyle Langley from Marge vs the Monorail?
It's been tried before, a bit slower but in the end it didn't work out. It's called Concorde.
I can imagine the fairs now, NY to LA, 1.9mil
Some years back Boeing looked into building a plane that would be very fast - hyper sonic or something? Airlines weren't interested.
Don't get excited, that 25 minute flight will still end up being 7 hours travel time. The TSA will make up the difference,
Want to consider the carbon footprint of that? Or is it OK- Like Al Gore's footprint- because it's blessed by a 'cool guy'?
I like this guy.
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