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    21st Century Ideas: Across the world in how many days?

    How does travel work in 2019?

    Started by: VoxExMachina Raves:4

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    I need to get from Amsterdam to Los Angeles as fast as possible. I'm a citizen journalist without a ton of cash. What problems do I face moving across the face of the world? Air travel is expensive, unreliable, and viciously controlled? Or has deregulation hit? Private air-travel? Do I have friends who fly cross-continent? What about other methods of transport? Fast boat? My folks are in the LA fire, so I'm desperate for answers...

    if you have a ton of cash, you\\\'re probably OK ... but it is a LOT you need for one of the few private airline companies. For smaller seas and great lakes, people are experimenting with Ekranoplans (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7638659.stm) as faster than airships, lower fuel consumption than real jets. However they\\\'re perceived as being more dangerous than hovercraft.

    This is a thorny problem. Air travel is ridiculously expensive, and cross-ocean airships haven\\\'t really caught back on as much as I hoped. I hear that ocean liners are making a comeback, so maybe that is your solution. Sadly, that\\\'s a several day commitment. If you can get to North America, I hear you can get a good cross-continent Amtrak ticket for cheap now that the government is trying to bring passenger rail service back from the dead and is heavily subsidizing the newer and faster trains.

    Yeah, I\\\'ve been checking online and it looks like I can take a \\\"commuter speeder\\\" from Dover to Baltimore, Maryland, for the low cost of a couple grand and three days. Time to dip into the rainy day fund. If there ever was a rainy day, this is it.

    Our pace is definitely slower down here in Kentucky - we have begun to rely on getting around on horseback when we have to get anywhere, and using our laptops on the solor generators when we wish to connect that way. Otherwise we spend a ton of time meditating and meeting up in DreamTime with our more advanced friends and associates. Collaborating on wishes on the multidimensional levels that tend to stretch the limiting concepts of space/time, formerly only conceived of by particle physicists, spiritual leaders or raving lunatics.

    You might try the postal system; we could be running mail vehicles in the direction you want to go. We keep some old-fashioned biodiesel vans around for long trips or large amounts of cargo.

    When it comes to travel from Europe to Eastern States, you might check with csven for available options. He shouldn\\\'t be hard to track down... his ship is currently quarantined off the coast of Maine :-( (I\\\'ll let him fill you in on the details.)

    Nanotechnologists are theorising the "deconstruction" of that which is to be transported via nanoprobes, then send pulses of information about it's pattern to a destination and then "reconstruct" him or her at the destination with nanoprobes there. Of course, with the current situations being so dire, research into such things is being put on hold.

    What? Richard Branson started towing all Virgin planes out to the runway as soon as mainstream started to get on the program, way back in 2006. Where have you been? The planes now are doing a brilliant job of whipping us around the planet. Using the jet stream to shift locations on Planet Earth, without any harm to the biosphere!!!!: this was our entire focus for two decades and it paid dirt!!

    By 'vortex-planes' in the jet stream - haven't you heard??!!




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