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A slow start to their campaign it seems. I'll chip in, but I fear they wont make it.
Yeah, they've successfully kept the secret for the first couple of days.
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A slow start to their campaign it seems. I'll chip in, but I fear they wont make it.
Realism. Read again: It's an airplane, and the time is 30 years from now in the alternate Universe.
But not with the airplane, I assume
Zenlil is one of five such Consortium vessels, and is the ultimate in air superiority. A massive jumbo jet that’s powered by fusion batteries and capable of taking missions in orbit or even as far as the Artemis-1 Moon Colony.
Hmm, Ok. I admit defeat. Jumbo spaceship is silly.
The space shuttle looked like am airplane too. Any spaceship that wish to fly in the atmosphere needs wings until anti-gravity tech is discovered. It look silly because people are used to more futuristic spaceship look, but in term of tech level it's not.
Actually, this is why older space ships were imagined as "flying saucers", that design can fly in the atmosphere, because the "ring" act like a wing. See the Avrocar.
Basically, their choice was space capable airship or flying saucer!
Yeah I guess something that looks exactly like a jumbo jet or a flying saucer were the only choices. It's not like they could have gone with something that looks more like a space shuttle or say any of these five dozen iterations of conceptual designs for reusable space-planes that don't look like 747s.
Hmm, Ok. I admit defeat. Jumbo spaceship is silly.
Some of the images in that search are space jets…
Seems solid enough, although I can't say I'm a fan of the visual style. They're not going to reach $200k though.