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glatt · 01-08-2014, 07:34 AM

I used to look for excuses to jump on a plane and go somewhere.

Now I look for ways to avoid it. Between the airlines reducing the quality of service, and the fucking TSA, flying is an unpleasant ordeal now.

Lamplighter · 01-08-2014, 08:53 AM

Do you have an extra $8.8 billion laying about somewhere ?
This is what you can get if you can fold it up and put it in a big suitcase

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... and then unfold it again ... without anything going wrong

Here is a 3-minute animation of the unfolding...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

(sorry, there's a short ad first)

slang · 01-08-2014, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

Between the airlines reducing the quality of service, and the fucking TSA, flying is an unpleasant ordeal now.

Very true. There is also a newly established "authority" that the flight attendants wield over travelers.

01-08-2014, 08:53 AM	#2
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Do you have an extra $8.8 billion laying about somewhere ? This is what you can get if you can fold it up and put it in a big suitcase ... and then unfold it again ... without anything going wrong Here is a 3-minute animation of the unfolding... The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) (sorry, there's a short ad first)

01-08-2014, 07:34 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I used to look for excuses to jump on a plane and go somewhere. Now I look for ways to avoid it. Between the airlines reducing the quality of service, and the fucking TSA, flying is an unpleasant ordeal now.

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