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NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why (nypost.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

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[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a climate conscious person plane is bad end of the line.

[–] borokov@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plane as public transport system are bad. Plane as piece of engineering are cool.

[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Plane are cool and I love them but seeing the hypocrisi of "conscious climate" ppl always rub me the wrong way. It s always so selective and so performative. Hum actually I dont use supersonic flight transportation not cause they dont exist anymore but because I'm a conscious climate person