Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
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1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
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But have you considered this other angle as well?
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This is also frustrating.
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The Boeing 707 in 1958, 67 years ago, flew at 965 kilometers per hour, 600 miles per hour.
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And that's just about what commercial jets do today.
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When you think about that, how is that even a thing in this age of rapid scientific advancement?
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Across so many fronts.
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It just sounds wrong, right?
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But there are – engineers aren't lazy and just like, ah, this is good enough.
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There's good engineering reasons why we don't see commercial flights getting faster and faster.
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Yeah.
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That's part of it.
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But it's also – it just becomes more and more difficult to go much faster than commercial airlines today, not just for the reason of surpassing supersonic speed.
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The drag just gets worse and worse and worse.
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So there's lots of reasons.
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But NASA and Lockheed Martin, they're trying to solve a lot of these problems on test planes like the X-59 and in just general research.
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But they specifically – from what I could gather, they specifically want to make this technology available –
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so that US manufacturers could then build their own supersonic commercial jets.
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That's one of their goals.
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So ideally, these technologies will need to solve so many problems, all of which plague the Concorde and are why it no longer flies.
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And these reasons include inefficiencies and expense.
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