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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Aurora in Flight
A two minute video compiled from still shots taken every two minutes by a camera mounted in an empty seat on a commercial Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris, that includes flying through an Aurora. It's mind-blowing to see it in the middle of an otherwise normally wondrous flight, so it's a neat video. (There's a music track, too.) But it reminds me why I get a window seat at least one-way on long flights--there's nothing, not even this video, to compare with what you can see live: clouds, sun and moon, mountains and waters and landscapes that can't even be described yet alone identified. You don't get much of a sense of flying on those big planes, but you do get a much different experience of the planet.
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