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The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows
merbs writes: Hope you're not too attached to looking out the windows when you fly — the designers of tomorrow's airplanes seem intent on getting rid of them. A Paris design firm recently made waves when it released its concept for a sleek, solar paneled, windowless passenger jet. Before that, Airbus proposed eschewing windows and building its cabins out of transparent polymers. Now, the Center for Process Innovation has floated its own windowless plane concept, and it's attracting plenty of headlines, too.
Maybe if you fly every week, it does. I fly rarely (almost a decade since my last flight), and I find it nice to look at the clouds, other planes, patterns on the ground, lights at night, the mountains. And now that I have a few kids, I can't wait for them to get to see it. Windowless plane sounds terrible to me.
And that is why I refuse to use those new-fangled elevators without windows.
Yeah I hate those danged 12 hour elevator rides...
That'll trigger an instant vomiting reflex in a lot of people. Turns out that our brains think that conflicting visual and vestibular cues mean that we'd ingested something very psychoactive and it's time to try and get rid of it.