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embedding-shapetoday at 12:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wake me up once commercial airplanes can take advantage of this and take us across the Atlantic in less than 5 hours.


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fallingbanannatoday at 1:38 PM

I don't mean to be disrespectful... but, why would you consider tech intended to save lives and resources less of a deal, than slightly faster flights over the Atlantic?

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notfromheretoday at 12:51 PM

planes fly above the weather, so kinda irrelevant. you can cross the atlantic fast with something like the Concorde

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