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It is only a matter of time before hypersonic airplanes carry freight or passengers to their destinations overseas. I think most people would rather spend 1.5 hours to go from LA to Sydney versus the 18 hours it takes currently.
The real rub will be whether space-based ferries going to low earth orbit then re-entering will do it first, and if so, where does that leave this technology? Purely in the weapons realm?
I'm afraid though that for this to become a commercial reality, we must first conquer the concept of gravity or train "passengers" at NASA facilities to deal with the g's.
I'm afraid though that for this to become a commercial reality, we must first conquer the concept of gravity or train "passengers" at NASA facilities to deal with the g's.
Inertial dampening. Gene Roddenberry figured it out a long time ago. Now NASA just has to figure out how to make it happen.
That's pretty cool. I've watched the ISS cross the sky over my neighborhood and it takes about 5 minutes to go from horizon to horizon. It looked like that vehicle could go from horizon to horizon in about a minute.
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