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China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not only nobody needs to do that trip that fast, but we're not in the early 00's anymore, and there has never been as many tools to communicate and collaborate remotely. So I'd expect a non-negligible part of these don't even need to do the trip anymore if they want to save money and time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Not only nobody needs to do that trip that fast,

I'd say using "nobody" is unwarranted... some people might've needed at some point. Regardless, it's not a need, it's a want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To be honest conferencing was pretty easy even back in the days of Concord. It was kind of a pointless vehicle really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

But the status... /s