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It’s a few years late, but a prototype supersonic airplane has taken flight (arstechnica.com)
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[–] notapantsday@feddit.de 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just what we needed, a new tool for the 0.1% to ruin this planet for everyone even faster.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Agreed. This is one that shouldn't become a thing now, or maybe ever depending on how practical vactrains turn out to be.

It's probably dead in the water anyway unless they make a private-jet-size model. It turns out these super-busy ubermensch executives actually can find the time to be up in the air, if it's cushy enough.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, the amount of pollution the Concord spewed into our air was disgusting