Re: Why Mars?

From: Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' ) (stderr2_at_backpacker.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:23:23 -0800

Miguel Cruz wrote:
>
> Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' ) <stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote:
> > There is no market for hyper cost hyper speed commercial passenger
> > airlines. The market is lower costs. Concord proves this.
>
> Tht just proves that there wasn't enough market for hyper speed commercial
> passenger airlines at the Concorde's price point.
>
> Clearly there is a market for faster transport or else everyone would be
> taking the train cross-country, which is much more comfortable.
>
People would take the train if it were substantially cheaper than taking
an airplane. It isn't. And the issue isn't between a train and a plane,
but between a plane and a hyperplane. 

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Brown out with, copies of another few thousand illegally acquired FBI
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