So I'm sitting in the departures area of Heathrow, waiting for my flight to get a gate. You know those stories about how people are terrified of flying, so they take one flight to overcome their fears and are fine with it? I'm kinda the opposite, the more I fly the more I realize just how unlikely it is that planes can actually stay in the air using so called 'engines', it's far more likely there's some kind of dark art involved (or seeing as it's towel day today, they could be being held up by art). So the more I fly, the more I'm disillusioned. I'm just hoping the plane doesn't catch onto that.
In other journeys today, the phoenix lander will arrive at the Mars and begin it's decent. The whole process takes seven minutes but the time delay between the two planets is ten minutes, so by the time they first hear about it starting here on earth, it will already have landed or not. That'll be a tense room.
Also I just poured water over myself and the laptop so I best wrap it up there. great start.
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Some scientists worked out recently that the way planes are supposed to work doesn't provide nearly enough upwards thrust to keep the plane in the air, and so some third force must be involved somewhere
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