The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound.

At this velocity, even the longest intercontinental flights could take just one or two hours while consuming less fuel compared with conventional jet engines.

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    9 months ago

    You need to draw the line between a country’s government and some of its brightest minds. This is a scientific breakthrough, and should be celebrated as such. Period.

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      9 months ago

      No. Sorry, but if the government is horrific then any scientific advancements will be used in unethical ways. It’s unfortunate but true.

      The CCP is brutally evil and that’s that.

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        9 months ago

        The research has been published. Everybody in the world is free to replicate it. The CCP is no more or less capable of doing so, just because it happened on their turf.

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        9 months ago

        Most of these inventions will be used by military first, in China as also in the USA, which isn’t an atom better in this and other aspect. It’s precisely the USA which use more investment in weapons and defense as any other country and not precisely for humanity reasons.