The Parker Solar Probe is now the fastest man-made object in history: boingboing.net/2023/10/10/this

(20 seconds from NYC to LAX would be close enough to instantaneous matter-energy transport that it wouldn't make much of a difference at terrestrial scales, but it's still a long way from being relativistic - about 0.00059c if my math is correct.)

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Your math checks. By way of comparison, at light speed circumnavigating the earth would be about 1/7th of a second.

Nowhere close to relativistic. But the real problems would be the atmosphere, and cargo. That is "burn up in the atmosphere" speeds easily - and acceleration/deceleration. Barring some magic tech - people go in, goo comes out. Soylent green.

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