Timeline for How would antigravity change the design of cities and buildings?
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| May 27, 2020 at 13:17 | comment | added | Matthew | "flying cars might even make the aerospace industry fairly obsolete"... probably yes and no. The logical thing to do will be to have the speed limits proportional to altitude; lower is slower, higher is faster. If "private" aircars are affordable and can travel (almost) as fast as modern passenger jets, then it will absolutely affect the airline industry. (It probably will anyway, just because they'll also want in on this "antigravity" thing.) On the other hand, public ground transportation is still a thing. Can you say "airbus"? 😉 | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 4:24 | comment | added | hyde | I took your words which I quoted above to mean, if we had flying cars using antigravity, we could have floating buildings using antigravity, just by putting more antigrav units under it. I'm just saying that does not logically follow. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 20:06 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @hyde In general though, the rule holds: more rocket engines can lift more mass. Almost every rule has a point at which it no longer holds; we just don't say that because it makes everything far more complex than it needs to be. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | hyde | "it follows logically that the more of them you have, the more mass you can lift", not necessarily, there can be interference or other effects. Actually most things we have scale up well only up to a point, and then there starts to be complications (like adding more rocket engines to a rocket or making single engine bigger, there's quickly a point where things start to go boom a bit too often). | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 19:08 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @DavidK you could write that up into an answer | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 19:06 | comment | added | David K | There's also the issue of safety. In order for any new technology to be approved for public use, one always has to answer the question of "what happens if it fails?". If the engine on a car dies, you pull over and slow down safely. What happens if your anti-grav car shuts off? What about your vertical walkway on the side of the building? If there aren't fail-safes, there's no way anti-grav would be approved for public use. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:53 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @DaaaahWhoosh That... is a bad thought. Even worse than normal drones. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:52 | comment | added | DaaaahWhoosh | I can just imagine the debates over antigravity drones... | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 16:47 | history | answered | ArtOfCode | CC BY-SA 3.0 |