Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Anyone who says "the world is shrinking" has never flown non-stop to China

I flew to China on Sunday. And most of Monday for that matter too. While its an amazing feat of engineering to create an aircraft that can carry hundreds of people over 5000 miles, I couldn't help but wonder (sometime during hour 11 or so of the flight) whether actually doing it was a good thing. There's something unnatural about packing a bunch of folks into a hunk of metal and zooming a 6 miles up into the air to go around the world. This definitely falls into the category of "just because we can, does that make it good"?

Still, I admit, its pretty cool. I had a window seat this time. A window seat in business class (with huge thanks to a very clueless check-in agent at RDU). And even better yet, that seat was on the upper deck of a 747. I'd never been in the upper deck of a 747. Check off something else on my list of things to do before I die.

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