I really like planes, but they don't seem real at all. It always seems like bad special effects to look out the window and see this big wing and tiny toy towns spread out below.
Airplanes are ridiculous. I mean, this huge lump of metal that has people inside it and can fly? I keep thinking I shouldn't believe in them.
Maybe it's all a Truman Show conspiracy and all planes are the same plane and when you get in it, they just move it down a runway and you get out on a different set, with different actors. I'm not sure how they change the pictures you see out the window. It's either a scene being played on a film that goes past you, wound from one roll onto another at the other end, or it's complicated holograms.
The other thing I don't get is how you always feel like you're heading the same way. Like you're always going North. It must be because you always face the front of the plane, so you're always pointed that way. The windows are so small that it's hard to tell the way the plane is facing, all you know is you're pointing at the front of the plane.
My theory is good but for one thing, how do they make you feel that sensation of being pressed backwards into your seat and lifting into the air? Maybe it's like a space simulator. Centrifugal force or something?
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Posted by jenni at April 19, 2004 04:56 PM