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Monday, August 13, 2012

4,000 MPH Commercial Travel Speed

SFO to JFK in less than an hour? It could happen
Barring snafus, an X-51 WaveRiderScramjet” could hit speeds of nearly 4,000 mph in a test flight on Tuesday. Such hypersonic flight, if proven viable, would cut the time of a cross-country trip from five hours plus to a mere 46 minutes..... promising Paris-to-Tokyo journeys of under 3 hours. .... Supersonic flight is not unprecedented. The Concorde aircraft flown by Air France and British Airways hit speeds of up to 2 mach or about 1,350 mph, but were notoriously inefficient and expensive. The program was not economically sustainable. And that will be a factor for commercial airlines evaluating hypersonic flight. .... at that clip, who cares about airline food or if the Wi-Fi works?




And check out this gravity train.



And if the world is not enough.



And if Mars is not enough, how about the future?




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Facebook's Financial Woes Are Unnecessary

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LinkedIn makes a ton of money off of your resume there even when you don't log in for weeks, months. Because your resume is data. Facebook has a larger user base, a more engaged user base. It is constantly collecting data. But it is not monetizing it like LinkedIn is monetizing it.

Facebook's monetization so far has been like if Google had run banner ads like Yahoo back in 2002. That would have been such a dud.

The top mobile app on all smartphone and tablet platforms - Facebook - struggles with mobile. That's pathetic. The top site to collect data on human behavior struggles with monetization. That's pathetic.

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Paan In Jackson Heights

A former roommate quoted in the very first sentence.

The author's Facebook update.


New York Times: On Jackson Heights Sidewalks, a Treat’s Messy Aftermath
On a stroll through the busy streets of Jackson Heights, Queens, Sahadev Poudel kept gesturing at the ground with disgust.