Do we REALLY need this ??
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The latest entry into the commercial space travel has a very practical proposition: commercial spacecraft, launched into suborbital fight, could deliver passengers to any destination in the world within two hours.
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I see nothing practical about this proposal. There are VERY few who need to be anywhere in the world in less than two hours. It will be enormously expensive and extremely wasteful of resources (the liquid fuel consumption alone and the energy required to create it).
Does anyone remember the SST ?? That project eventually failed since there were not enough people using it to make it financially feasible - any it was affordable when compared to this idea presented by this article.
There has been a similar, albeit earthbound, project in the planning stage for MANY years now called Fastboat. It proposed rapid commercial service across the Atlantic ocean between France and Philadelphia (I believe they were the ports - if not close to those locales). The launch date was supposed to be 2003 but STILL has not come to be. I just can't fathom this - two hour transport - coming into everyday use.
