<story><title>SpaceX BFR [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>I think if we measure the travel time from door to door the benefits of the fast rocket shrink in a relation to where is located.&lt;p&gt;With airplanes this is solved, by the big infrastructure ( cities sometimes have even 2-3 airports ).&lt;p&gt;Where I live ( Berlin ) with a flight to NYC would look like :&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1. City center -&amp;gt; TXL  - 20m
    2. Check-in &amp;#x2F; security - 30m ( no joke, the airport is small )
    3. Flight              - 9h 15m
    4. Check-out &amp;#x2F; luggage - 50m 
    5. EWR -&amp;gt; City center  - 50m
    ------------- TOTAL ---- 11h 25m
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This means that ( ignoring the BFR flight time, since it&amp;#x27;s just minutes ) the time between you leave the city-center and entering the BFR should take less than 5 hours ( for Berlin ), otherwise you will not arrive faster than a plane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Florin_Andrei</author><text>One thing you&amp;#x27;re missing:&lt;p&gt;For a very high profile requirement - say, some kind of huge emergency - you could land the BFR &lt;i&gt;anywhere&lt;/i&gt; there&amp;#x27;s a solid surface the size of a soccer field. Zero infrastructure required.&lt;p&gt;Getting it out of there again would be difficult, but you could have a team of experts and a whole lot of material resources literally drop down from the sky anywhere on Earth in a matter of hours. Most of that duration would be spent loading the human and material cargo into the rocket.&lt;p&gt;We have no way of doing that currently.&lt;p&gt;P.S.: And if the emergency is big enough, you could drop the whole thing into the ocean near the shore and just jettison the passengers and cargo shortly before impact.&lt;p&gt;Rapid intervention anywhere on Earth. Literally.</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceX BFR [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drinchev</author><text>I think if we measure the travel time from door to door the benefits of the fast rocket shrink in a relation to where is located.&lt;p&gt;With airplanes this is solved, by the big infrastructure ( cities sometimes have even 2-3 airports ).&lt;p&gt;Where I live ( Berlin ) with a flight to NYC would look like :&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1. City center -&amp;gt; TXL  - 20m
    2. Check-in &amp;#x2F; security - 30m ( no joke, the airport is small )
    3. Flight              - 9h 15m
    4. Check-out &amp;#x2F; luggage - 50m 
    5. EWR -&amp;gt; City center  - 50m
    ------------- TOTAL ---- 11h 25m
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
This means that ( ignoring the BFR flight time, since it&amp;#x27;s just minutes ) the time between you leave the city-center and entering the BFR should take less than 5 hours ( for Berlin ), otherwise you will not arrive faster than a plane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>The Boring Company&amp;#x27;s tunnels will get you to the spaceport at 200kph with no traffic or stoplights (or 1000kph if you&amp;#x27;re coming from a distance)&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Without tunnels, we will be in traffic hell forever&amp;quot; -Elon Musk</text></comment>