• Stamets@startrek.website
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    Everytime I see these I always take solace in one simple fact. This would never be able to pass any disability or accessibility act.

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    I don’t absolutely hate it, but I’m 6’3", so fully stretching my legs out on a plane is always just a pipe dream.

    I’m sure they’d make them fit only average size people, unfortunately.

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    Window seat dude needs to take a piss, watch the fun …

    Also, why the fuck is she smiling?!

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    One day they’ll invent super-economy class where you just get strapped to the wings and released over your destination. Parachutes will cost extra.

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    I think they should just have rows of bunk beds. It’s much easier to stack something flat than people with their awkward bends at the hips and knees.

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      This design is similar but not the same as OG post. Although still shitty, its quite an improvement over the orgional.

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      The newer version from the link looks less bad than this picture, but still dystopian as fuck. We need to make airline travel cheaper somehow rather than having the airline industry come up with their own ideas to try and pack people in like cattle.

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        Cheaper? What kinda crack are you smoking? Shit is destroying the planet, it needs to be a LOT more expensive.

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          Uh, you know, it is possible to care about two things at once. Wanting airline travel to be cheaper/more comfortable and also less environmentally unfriendly are not mutually exclusive positions.

          As others have pointed out, making it more expensive isn’t going to get rid of air travel, it’ll just be reserved for the ultra-wealthy who will not give a damn either way.

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          what kind of crack are YOU smoking? So practically “banning” poor people for traveling anywhere further than 500km than their hometown is the solution? And allow rich people go on as usual?

          The not-wealthy will be the only ones affected by this. Business people were traveling since the birth of the aviation and will continue travelling. This will be just an increased cost in their cost planning.

          So if you’re rich you’re allowed to destroy the planet. If you’re poor stay at home, the planet is in danger.

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          I agree, but it’s mostly the Uber wealthy, not regular travelers. It’s bad, but it’s not that bad. Using a whole plane to carry one or two people is horrible though.

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          You get points for being an environmentalist but lose points for accusing any differing opinion of being the result of drug use. That cliche is often used on autistic people to attack them for thinking differently. You should try making your point without cliches.

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        This extra passenger density would make it cheaper per person, right? More fuel efficient, too.

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          Looking over my original post, perhaps my phrasing wasn’t clear. Yes, this is one way to decrease costs, but it comes at the expense of comfort. Airline companies are no stranger to this process, and have been rolling out new methods of packing as many passengers onto a plane as physically possible since the very first commercial airplanes took flight.

          Awkward and regressive ideas like this, where the airlines are contemplating stacking people in uncomfortable looking double-decker seating to save precious inches of space are only coming out now because no significant strides have been made in making air travel less expensive to operate as a whole. It is always going to be easier to shave off a few inches of legroom and pack in another row of seating in the next generation of jet airliner than it is to invent a new type of jet fuel that is cheaper and burns cleaner without sacrificing performance, or developing a new more efficient fuselage that can fly just as far as a conventional plane while carrying less fuel, etc.

          It would be nice to see air travel improve for a change, rather than continue to get worse and worse over time out of necessity.

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      Eh. Fewer passengers per plane is worse for the environment, and lying down is great for people with back problems. I can see the pluses.

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    at that point just give me general anaesthesia and put me in an airline shipping coffin so at least i don’t have to be conscious for the horror show

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        Not sure if you’re just joking, but plenty of people survive plane crashes. Most crashes aren’t just a plane falling out of the sky at full speed. Survival rates are around 95%.

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          Generally speaking, plane crashes are like train crashes. Either most everyone survives, or most everyone dies pretty quickly, with very little in between.

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      Imagine this plane with a fire on board before takeoff and now the unfit overweight masses have to evacuate.

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    As someone who doesn’t have claustrophobia, I feel claustrophobic just looking at this. Then again, I’ve never been on a plane before, and for all I know this might be better :/

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      I had very bad claustrophobia the time I got rolled in a carpet with only my head sticking out or the time I got closed in a trunk. Flew around 12 times on airplanes and they are mostly just uncomfortable and annoying. Maybe I grew out of it 🤷

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            Getting locked in a trunk and rolled up into a carpet with your head sticking out just sounds like someone Wile e coyote would count as normal life experiences. Bonus points if you hopped away off screen after getting rolled in the carpet.

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              I got rolled into our floor rug as a kid, we were messing around and I thought it would be funny. It was not and a panic attack was had.

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        I think theres just so much shit going on in an airplane that the brain short circuits and doesnt think about the fact that you are in a disturbingly thin walled, air sealed aluminium can hurtling through the sky at 800+kph with a hundred other people, most of whom dont have the common sense the gods gave a common rock, and are riddled with disease that you are no doubt being exposed to due to being crammed in like sardines.

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          I agree it sucks but most of the time I am just hoping that the plane doesn’t crash, and I am a pretty anxious person, other than that my headphones are in and I’m either listening to music or watching a something and looking out the window :p

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      The leg room is better but scooting into the window seat will be slightly harder. Hard telling if you can put your feet down in this set up though.

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        The leg room is different, but it isn’t better. There’s about the same amount of usable space. I’d prefer the classic chair setup I think.

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          Just looks way too low clearance. Can’t put up your knees, can’t put one leg over the other, can’t lay on the side. Who can keep their legs straight like this for 10h. If it had like double the clearance I’d love this.

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            Alternatively, have it totally flat under some chairs maybe? Have the option for a bed or a chair basically.