tarmac

The same square footage of tarmac might be able to move cars much quicker. Maybe autoautos can handle 200km speeds.

To the extent that pavements are an afterthought, sandwiched between lawns and tarmac. - Culture: This is not going to be an issue for most people making the move.

As opposed to the typical suburban wasteland of concrete, tarmac, strip malls and exhaust fumes. Cars kill.

You can drive your car out onto the tarmac, hop in the plane, and have your rental car/limo waiting for you on the tarmac on the other side. You don't even have to look at a TSA agent.

Trains have rails, airplanes have a nice bit of tarmac and bikes should have a space tailored to their specific needs as well. Typically in the Netherlands, bikes are banned from roads that are 50km/h and up.

You might end up in Cuba, or held on the tarmac for ransom or something. What would have stopped 9/11 is if the public had a different mindset, being "take these assholes down at any cost".

But when congress needs to fly home, well then they will fund things like air-traffic controllers so they do not have to wait on the tarmac like everyone else.

As well as they replanted plants and replaced tarmac and everything else that was damaged in the process outdoors. That should tell us, that they're still making hefty profits from the connection.

I wonder if they could spin up the tires before they hit the tarmac on landing? Think about it: the landing gear tires go from 0 rpm to spinning rapidly enough to carry the plane going about 140 mph in a fraction of a second.

Sometime after that, StratoLaunch might roll something onto a tarmac somewhere.

In particular, it's simply not supposed to be possible for somebody to sneak onto the tarmac unnoticed.

I'm going to be spending too many hours on the plane anyway, why would I want to spend yet another hour sitting motionless on the tarmac when I could be out where there's power and wifi and restrooms? So I book an aisle seat and ignore the zone calls and get in line near the very end.

Yes - and we could replace the rubber/tarmac interface with a steel/steel one for even better efficiency. Highly automated steel-wheeled vehicle on steel tracks with continuous electricity supply along the way...

"Screw all theories of moral relativism; I can tell whether you're a good person or not by knowing how much money it would take to tempt you to leave an entire planeload of people sitting on the tarmac for an extra ten minutes." Lets consider a few hypothetical scenarios: 1.

Screw all theories of moral relativism; I can tell whether you're a good person or not by knowing how much money it would take to tempt you to leave an entire planeload of people sitting on the tarmac for an extra ten minutes.

I can just picture a surly captain chewing through a bag of rambutans he bought on the tarmac while he waits until there are enough people to make it worth his while to take off while his helper abruptly stops selling tickets and disappears into the nearest bar for half an hour.

As long as we are imagining, why not imagine a team of terrorists paratrooping on to the tarmac armed with nuclear bombs, and a vial of smallpox virus genetically modified to be exceptionally virulent? Or that the president is secretly controlled by aliens and has introduced an agent into the water supply that will sterilize all humans, allowing a non-violent takeover of the planet by 'them'.

While I agree with aspects of poor governance and garbage accumulation and many other observations, I realized the author was out to represent a preconceived notion of a nation, when I read, "homeless people sleeping on the tarmac, the city is so crowded and disgusting that people decide theyd rather sleep on the airport runway." I will pick on that lie to state my point. If you have been to any of the smaller metros in India, you generally get thru immigration at Mumbai before taking a flight from the domestic terminal. Getting to the domestic terminal from the international terminal is cumbersome. You are escorted in a bus operated by the Airport Authority of India, accompanied by security personel. The aspect of the ride that is of interest is the route taken by the bus. The bus operated within the premises of the airport often running along side the tarmac and taxi way thru numerous and repeated security check-points while it meanders to or from the domestic terminal. This gives you the best view of the runways at ground level in slow speed often around 15 kmph and includes a section of the ride around the cargo terminals. Most international airlines operate to and out of Mumbai during the night often after 12 AM. I have taken this ride on at least 3 occasions and have not seen a single individual sleeping on the tarmac on even one occasion.