• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Also… Why would you get into one of those things? In a plane, you are the crumple zone.

    For business just teleconference.

    For personal, I can tell you that photos tell the story pretty well. There are people there already taking the photos. You don’t need a selfie there, just use the Gimp. For everything else in the modern world, it all looks pretty close to how it looks at home.

    There’s no need to travel. Specially within your country. Its not like high speed trains are any safer. And cars…what’s next the entire planet is a big ass road?

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            12 hours ago

            Nope. I wanna keep it that way. I’ve flown on 737’s where the engines keep making little sparks the entire flight… As an ex solarturbines engineer I can tell you that that’s not normal and can lead to flying blades which can slice right thru the plane body and you like butter. They have a cover around the blades that is supposed to stop them. But I don’t trust it since I haven’t seen the test videos at vehicle speed. But that’s just one minor issue. I’ve been on a plane landing in Bohol the Philippines where some “minor” damage was promptly patched using duct tape.

            My job used to take me places. That’s probably the only reason to travel… For science, education, or for a job. Not for going to another sushi place or to see a building or a pyramid. The worse travel is for nothing… Carnival cruise ships. And also for things… China made stuff you buy from temu.

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      20 hours ago

      in order to visit one side of my family, which lives over 1000 miles away, a plane is by far the most convenient and fastest method.

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        12 hours ago

        That may be true. My sister lives on the east coast and I’m on the northWest. My mom and other siblings live south.

        I don’t go visit on the weekends. I got shit to do. Just give them a call. They probably got shit to do too. Lol.