Comments on: Jodie Foster Could Potentially Lose a Kid in It https://blog.speculist.com/inventions/jodie-foster-co.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/inventions/jodie-foster-co.html#comment-1485 Phil Bowermaster Tue, 02 May 2006 07:05:13 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=713#comment-1485 Well, bigger and faster planes are a definite help where things like long-haul flights from the US to southeast Asia are concerned. (We make that trip regularly.)

As for getting through the airport quicker, please see item 1 on my list. I’m all for removing the airport from the picture altogether.

]]> By: doctorpat https://blog.speculist.com/inventions/jodie-foster-co.html#comment-1484 doctorpat Tue, 02 May 2006 02:01:55 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=713#comment-1484 Faster planes? Bigger planes? Who cares?

Now if someone could work out how to get through the airport and on to the plane in less than two hours, THAT might make a difference.

Except… I’ve been to heaps of airports where you get on the plane in 15 minutes. Little country airports where the plane takes 15 passengers: no security, no baggage wait (you just pick it up off the truck that brings it from the aeroplane, thus saving another useless wait).

So if you want fast, comfortable travel, make small planes, fire all the security, and let people handle their own damn luggage. Of course it uses more fuel per passenger, but think of the other savings.

A tiny plane isn’t worth hijacking as a weapon either.

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