Monthly Archive for August, 2008

longing for the left seat in the skies

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To those of you who know me in real life you will probably know about my obsession regarding aviation. I usually blabber about it sometimes with such enthusiasm to a point where I can bore airline pilots if I ever had the chance :) Going through endless documentaries , documents , websites , ebooks and what not I have finally reached a conclusion regarding this dream of taking the left seat in the sky as captain. Captain Spinthiras doesn’t sound too cool but if I am ever your pilot in an aircraft , you can just call me captain and it’s fine. :)

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the world’s human face

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Laugh in a subtle grin as if this were a joke. We presume they do to. Why is it we feel the need to demonstrate power in such a large scale?  Is it because we don’t have enough nuclear weapons to start blowing up planets and other large objects in deep space? Is it because we are so humane and peace induced beings that we don’t like firing weapons? Or is it because an averagely clever teenager with a few chemistry books in his head can’t build a bomb large enough to wipe the country you live in overnight? So which is it?

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