Ultra Fast Point-To-Point Travel - Visioneering 2011 - X PRIZE Foundation

VOTE on your favorite prize concept! http://xprize.org/visioneering-workshop-2011

We've all been there -- sitting for hours upon hours on airplanes traveling across the country or the world. Why waste days in the sky when a vehicle flying at speeds in excess of Mach 4 could take you across the world in a fraction of the time?

This prize would incentivize a new generation of super-fast vehicles traveling at the edge of space. By reducing air drag, these vehicles could improve fuel efficiency. At speeds just twice as fast as the Concorde, Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight could be recreated in less than two hours. And true suborbital spaceflight could take passengers from New York to Tokyo in under an hour.


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[bighands69]

@alienhacker51

The technology that will make shorter fights will also be the same technology that can manage and create fresh water.

The xprize is also working on water and food projects.

People are motivated by different things and we cannot expect everybody to do the same thing because if they did then there would be many discoveries that would not have happened.

[alienhacker51]

My plee is short, look to the future, we NEED WATER. So why would faster travel change that problem, vote for water filtration systems, water storage, family water recycling ideas. These are the things we must look at for the future generation. Yet for some reason you guys want to help these gentleman spend less time on a flight. I am 19 i care about the NEXT generation where if we dont survive there will be no Human race to go out into the universe.

[kurtilein3]

....second comment, clarification:

the signal doesnt need to move along the shortest path on the surface, but the shortest path along the surface is used to calculate the time to beat in milliseconds. i know i should just do the calculation and give a time in milliseconds for that berlin-tokyo data transmission x-prize, but im too lazy so ill just estimate about 80 milliseconds.

[kurtilein3]

i have a better idea.

send 1 petabyte of data over the internet from berlin to tokyo in over 80% of the speed of light along the shortest surface connection within a day. or the same from somewhere in africa to somewhere in australia.

just compare the actual time a ping takes to the theoretical limits, we could make the internet a factor of 4 faster!

i dont care about faster planes. but cutting down the lag in the internet close to the theoretical limit would be awesome.

[coasterpro]

This is not my favorite proposal as it is more akin to whining about convenience than addressing a real problem. What we need in aviation are breakthroughs in capacity and fuel efficiency to reduce costs. Speed would be nice, but that goal just doesn't seem to fit the spirit of the X Prize and its prior exploratory challenges.

[nightshadowblade]

Vacuum-Maglev on land, with speeds of over 5000 mph? No problem! Intercontinental flights with scramjets? No problem! It's only a question of money.

[koneye]

"Hyper Fast Point to Point Passenger Travel " - aks the government