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beis77 07-25-2020 07:19 AM
Originally Posted by SparkySmith (Post 3098893)
Good analysis with some good comments. Clearly the winning comment is from the guy who recommends we leverage emerging transporter technology from Georgia Tech. He is right, a Star Trek transporter would devastate our industry. We need to prepare for that.

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Even in Star Trek they still used shuttle craft. Heck, Dr. McCoy hated the transporter. So there’s that. Even if/when that technology emerges in a couple hundred years (or whenever), that would certainly decimate the cargo industry, but there will always be those pax that say “no way”. Heck, how many transporter malfunctions did they have in the series? Thanks but no thanks. When that time comes, sign me up for my Galileo Class type rating ;)

Bainite 07-25-2020 07:44 AM
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You could be turned into an evil version of yourself in the transporter and then start stealing booze and hitting on all the female crew, basically turned into a navy pilot.

beis77 07-25-2020 07:47 AM
Originally Posted by Bainite (Post 3098921)
You could be turned into an evil version of yourself in the transporter and then start stealing booze and hitting on all the female crew, basically turned into a navy pilot.
“I’M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!”,
lol, nice reference

gloopy 07-25-2020 07:55 AM
Originally Posted by 1Taco (Post 3098888)
I heard a rumor that Delta is going to replace our fleet of [Porsches] with miatas.
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All their HVC are belong to us.

Hank Kingsley 07-25-2020 08:00 AM
Originally Posted by 1Taco (Post 3098888)
I heard a rumor that Delta is going to replace our fleet of porches with miatas.
That's a good one. And we'll own the HVC market.

D B Cooper 07-25-2020 08:01 AM
Originally Posted by Bainite (Post 3098921)
You could be turned into an evil version of yourself in the transporter and then start stealing booze and hitting on all the female crew, basically turned into a navy pilot.
Denny's new hire photo?

gloopy 07-25-2020 08:01 AM
Originally Posted by iaflyer (Post 3098891)
Even the large 737-900ER order has had changes during the run. Example, the early airplanes had different landing lights than later planes - so just the 737-900ER fleet will have differing part numbers within the sub-fleet.
I don't think anyone making these kinds of decisions cares about things at that level even a tiny bit. Besides, that level of minutiae is inevitable anyway.

Hank Kingsley 07-25-2020 08:04 AM
Originally Posted by Bainite (Post 3098921)
You could be turned into an evil version of yourself in the transporter and then start stealing booze and hitting on all the female crew, basically turned into a navy pilot.
Shatner used to have horses in northern Kentucky, I sat next to him commuting to CVG. Got a lot of CRM tips. TIC. Later, ran into Scotty at the Drawbridge's microbrewery, Star Trek convention. He hated Shatner. After a couple beers, it was fun.

gloopy 07-25-2020 08:07 AM
Originally Posted by beis77 (Post 3098907)
Even in Star Trek they still used shuttle craft. Heck, Dr. McCoy hated the transporter. So there’s that. Even if/when that technology emerges in a couple hundred years (or whenever), that would certainly decimate the cargo industry, but there will always be those pax that say “no way”. Heck, how many transporter malfunctions did they have in the series? Thanks but no thanks. When that time comes, sign me up for my Galileo Class type rating ;)
Besides, didn't Jeff Goldblum do a documentary on this technology a little while back? Everyone wants to save a few bucks getting to MCO though I guess. People might risk death to be replaced by a clone on the other side if it means getting the fare down a bit but today's "cleanliness stadards" are nothing compared to what will be required with that...

D B Cooper 07-25-2020 08:16 AM
Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 3098943)
Besides, didn't Jeff Goldblum do a documentary on this technology a little while back? Everyone wants to save a few bucks getting to MCO though I guess. People might risk death to be replaced by a clone on the other side if it means getting the fare down a bit but today's "cleanliness stadards" are nothing compared to what will be required with that...
Once Amazon gets into the passenger cargo business.

https://youtu.be/ECdZd74fAe4


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