Blake Scholl
Person on 4 sites
Founder and chief executive of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Half a century after Apollo and Concorde we can neither reach the moon nor fly faster than sound: the future stopped getting faster. (opens korrents.com)
“In 1969, we landed on the moon for the first time and the same year we flew Concord, the faster than the speed of sound airliner. The future was supposed to be faster and better. where we're supposed to look forward to…”
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A defence industry that needs more than two years to build a single missile interceptor can neither build the future nor win a war. (opens korrents.com)
“It now takes Lockheed more than two years to build a new Patriot missile interceptor. This is crazy. This is no way to build the future and this is no way to win a war.”
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Airliner design has not progressed in fifty years — the newest jet is no faster and makes the world no more accessible than the one that opened the jet age. (opens korrents.com)
“But if we fast forward half a century, this is the 787, their latest airliner, which by the way was launched more than 20 years ago. You can't spot the difference. It doesn't fly any faster. It doesn't make the world…”
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Half a century after Apollo and Concorde we can neither reach the moon nor fly faster than sound: the future stopped getting faster. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Lifespan (opens rcmnd.app)
“Read Lifespan by @davidasinclair or check out his podcast with the same name”
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Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 (opens rcmnd.app)
“Best thing I have read on this so far is @mattwridley’s Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19”
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Atlas Shrugged (opens rcmnd.app)
“I mean, far and away my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged, and it's probably not an accident that all the heroes in Atlas Shrugged are also pilots.”
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Lifespan (opens rcmnd.app)