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

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Why does one have to win? Don’t both have their own strengths and weaknesses?

    I would love to take a train across the Atlantic or island hop over the Pacific but those are some serious engineering problems.

    Cities don’t pick trams, light rail, or bus networks. They have a mix of all of them.

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      3 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.