Re: NEWS: Supersonic failure?

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 10:36:42 MDT


On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:00:58PM -0700, Max More wrote:
>
> Count me in. My fathered worked on the original British Concorde near
> Bristol in England. A 21st century without supersonic flight just does feel
> right -- even though for most of it we will be travelling mostly virtually.

While Concorde is extremely cool, I can't help thinking that
SST's are a very nineteen-sixties kind of project. Why can't
we look forward to cheap, universal teleportation instead?

I'll settle for the speed of light, thank you very much.

-- Charlie

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