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NASA moves a step closer to supersonic passenger flights (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by deconstruct@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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In July, Lockheed Martin completed the build of NASA’s X-59 test aircraft, which is designed to turn sonic booms into mere thumps, in the hope of making overland supersonic flight a possibility. Ground tests and a first test flight are planned for later in the year. NASA aims to have enough data to hand over to US regulators in 2027.

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is wrong. NASA from the beginning was co-opted by the MIC owned by the original billionaires with a tissue thin veil about civilization advancement. Any discussion about super-sonic flight has already dismissed environmental impact and economic accessibility even if it's ostensibly NASA doing it.

IF there was a supersonic capable flight technology that somehow wasn't reliant on fossil fuels or other externalities and was cheap enough that a minimum wage worker could use them as often as they use the Subway in the top 10 largest cities in the world, then I'd be 100% behind it. But that isn't the case, that is not the intended case, and that will never be the case.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

First point there is carbon neutral jet fuel because NASA have been working of jet fuel chemistry for decades.

Secondly flying isn't commuting, people don't need to go to new cities twice a day but being cheap enough to allow people on minimum wage to have a holiday a few times a year would be a great benefit to all.