transforming Earth-to-Earth travel

 

https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2105764857882739168?s=20

X Freeze

@XFreeze

Starship is going to completely transform Earth-to-Earth travel Instead of spending 8, 10 or 12 hours crossing the planet in a commercial aircraft, Starship’s point-to-point system is designed to send passengers above most of the atmosphere and across Earth in roughly half an hour The proposed travel times are wild: • Los Angeles → New York: 25 min • Bangkok → Dubai: 27 min • Tokyo → Singapore: 28 min • London → New York: 29 min • New York → Paris: 30 min • Sydney → Singapore: 31 min • Los Angeles → London: 32 min • London → Hong Kong: 34 min Here’s how it works... Launch from one side of Earth, accelerate into a suborbital trajectory, coast across the planet at enormous speed, then descend and land near the destination A journey that normally consumes most of your day could become shorter than many people’s daily commute Starship is being built for orbit, the Moon and Mars But the same vehicle will eventually redefine how humans travel across Earth too From crossing oceans in hours to crossing the planet in minutes

X Freeze

@XFreeze

Elon Musk sees a path where the cost to orbit drops below commercial air freight Ultimately Starship will be able to fly across the globe cheaper per ton than a Boeing 747 That opens up a massive range of possibilities for global logistics

Loki Δ∇Δ

@LokiAnomaly

Okay. No. That will not work. Only because... Have you calculated how much G-force you need to handle to travel like that? Ordinary people are definitely not really trained for 3+ G...

Joseph Marble

@ManofToMarble

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8h

3G really isn't that bad. You just feel like a fridge magnet. Did it in Space Camp years ago.