For the record, your website starts out "Our website has no flashy buttons, fancy graphics, eye-catching JavaScript animations, or stock photos with grinning people, and that is by design" and then your website goes on to have every single one of those things.
Interesting project, but the custom scroll behavior on the site is obnoxious. It makes navigating the site more difficult than it should be. Might be something to reconsider.
Looks like they work at Meta, but this is a scammy blind-referral submission scheme for them to refer random people to collect the $5k employee referral bonus. This is definitely discouraged.
It’s not about my brand of humor, any comment that is just a quip is unsubstantial and against community guidelines here. What exactly is the point of your comment other than to try and make us more like Reddit, the website HN was designed to not be.
That's part of the problem, as is the fact that batteries don't get lighter through the flight. The energy infrastructure on the ground is the thorny bit, though.
Getting enough energy into enough planes fast enough at enough airports to make a dent. As a guide to the order of magnitude of the problem, consider that a 747 needs roughly 100MW to stay airborne.
> Using current technology we could probably make an object go faster than that so yes, it would be able to catch up
We could achieve slightly greater speed immediately after launch but we wouldn't be able to exploit the planetary gravity assists that accelerated the Voyager spacecraft.
I attempted to build flight control software for a quadcopter[1]. I had a few major life changes around this time and it got packed up and I stopped working on it before I got the PID controllers worked out. But I essentially wrote a small game engine and had to learn a little calculus along the way.
