Airplanes Overhead
When you see an airplane flying over your house, do you ever think if someone in the plane is looking down on your house?
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bijouxbroussard 路 F
JimboSaturn 路 51-55, M
@bijouxbroussard when Im on a plane I looked down and think about all theses lives going on below me. I guess that's why I think that
bijouxbroussard 路 F
@JimboSaturn I could see that, in the abstract. A couple of jets flew over several months ago, and [b]that[/b] felt so close like they could鈥檝e landed on our roof. It was weird. I think I posted something about it.
JimboSaturn 路 51-55, M
@bijouxbroussard I live next a road called Airport Road near Toronto Canada so they do tend to fly over my house a lot
ArishMell 路 70-79, M
@JimboSaturn I can understand that even though I have taken no more than about a dozen return flights, and only one of them was abroad. The rest were internal and of only about an hour air-time each way.
I have experienced slightly similar thoughts when on a train, probably because I travel by train rarely and as in an aeroplane, you are somewhat insulated from the rest of the world you are seeing from an unusual angle.
From the air you see everything broadly with no fine details, in a context many miles wide. From a train you see people's back gardens, the rear of businesses, a view of roads and traffic very different from your experience as motorist and pedestrian, farmland a long way from the public roads, the scenery generally; but in a more confined context.
The aircraft flies at anything from 200 to 400 knots but the ground far below seems to pass slowly. From a conventional passenger-train moving at anything from 70 to 120mph, the foreground is a fast-moving blur; but its slowing through the suburbs on approaching the station lets you study all those lineside lives!
(On one journey, travelling along the flank of the beautiful Avon valley towards Bath (SW England), a gap in the trees gave me a very brief glimpse of a figure sun-bathing prone on the river bank, some distance below the railway. I am sure it was both female and nude...)
I have experienced slightly similar thoughts when on a train, probably because I travel by train rarely and as in an aeroplane, you are somewhat insulated from the rest of the world you are seeing from an unusual angle.
From the air you see everything broadly with no fine details, in a context many miles wide. From a train you see people's back gardens, the rear of businesses, a view of roads and traffic very different from your experience as motorist and pedestrian, farmland a long way from the public roads, the scenery generally; but in a more confined context.
The aircraft flies at anything from 200 to 400 knots but the ground far below seems to pass slowly. From a conventional passenger-train moving at anything from 70 to 120mph, the foreground is a fast-moving blur; but its slowing through the suburbs on approaching the station lets you study all those lineside lives!
(On one journey, travelling along the flank of the beautiful Avon valley towards Bath (SW England), a gap in the trees gave me a very brief glimpse of a figure sun-bathing prone on the river bank, some distance below the railway. I am sure it was both female and nude...)