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Experiencing the Miracle of Powered Flight

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Flew from Saigon to Kuala Lumpur yesterday, transiting in Singapore. The seats were tiny, I barely fit in it. At first I was kind of annoyed at that, and then I realized - whoa, I'm flying. I'm experiencing the miracle of powered human flight.

That put it into proper perspective, and I had a really nice flight. Related:

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Hi Sebastian,

I know what you mean. In January this year I was greatly astonished to find myself stepping on solid ground after an 11 hour plane ride. I knew there would be land -the earth is round, after all, and all the maps say there is land. Heck, even then I had friends living there. But stepping down on that land, I just thought.... wow. Wow. This is real. The world is so big. Forgotten was the bad weather in Madrid which caused the first plane I took to be late, made me miss the big one flying over the ocean, and stay an extra night in Spain. THERE WAS STILL LAND! I was amazed I was walking on it. It was awesome.

Last night a 40x15m suddenly opened up in a small town in Germany. I was amazed. What are the odds? I was so amazed I had to write a short blog post about it. Checking out your website afterwards reminded me of this post of yours, and how it is somewhat related.

Keep up the wonder! Wondering is good. It makes people not only feel good, but also question the mundane. It's an essential part of science and progress.

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I try not to forget it. I just got off Skype with Yifei in Boston. I called him on SkypeOut (cost: 10 cents USD) to get on Skype (free). Now I'm talking to a fella on the other side of the world. For free. I'm in Hong Kong on top of a mountain. He's in the middle of a city on the other side of the world. And we're talking to each other, real time, for free. No problem. My voice gets converted into digital stuffs, send through wireless signal to a router, which goes through fiberoptics under the ocean to Boston, which gets to Yifei's router and beams it to his laptop.

We're editing in Google docs (free). I can watch as he types and it instantly appears on my screen. This is so marvelously amazing. We're living in the future. I can't get over how amazing this is. Watch that video if you haven't yet. Or watch it again. It's so funny and so true. We're in the future. Wow.

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