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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Once it gets down to ~ 1 day the flight time is pretty much irrelevant due to
- the time required for surface travel home to the vehicle, then from vehicle to the ultimate destination, plus the time to clear baggage, customs and immigration. All of which consume the best part of a day anyway.
- the problem of adjusting your body clock to the new timezone.
Utterly unnecessary and irresponsible in terms of the grotesque consumption of resources and environmental pollution to accomplish that journey per person.
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Did you actually watch what he said? Do you know what a full laden jumbo jet weighs (a 747 can weigh 440 tonnes, and A380 much more), and how much of the earths resources go into making them? Regarding resources and pollution, compare a maybe ten minute launch burn with a jumbo jet burning jet fuel for 15 hours to get to the same place. The BRF ship has stubby winglets and a full length heat shield, powered descent burn is only used in the last few minutes for slowing and switching attitude to vertical landing. Do you know how many passengers the BRF ship can carry in that configuration? Lets get the facts straight before we burn this guy.