Zelaron Gaming Forum - View Single Post - YOU could visit outer-space!

Lenny

Lenny said:

It's another step closer to faster global travel, though, ain't it? Set up spaceports everywhere, send the vehicle up into the fringes of the earth's atmosphere, whizz it along at a few thousand miles an hour, and come down and land in another spaceport.

DARPA is already working on something close to this rapid-insertion capability. Basically you go up into subspace where there is less air and a slight orbit so speeds can be much higher with less fuel and then you go back down cutting a 9 hour trip into like an hour.