On the Miracle of Human Flight
This is a clip of comedian Louis C.K. on Conan, back when he still had a talk show on NBC. Louis talks about how amazing life is today, and how little people appreciate it. It never gets old. On the miracle of human flight, he relates the following story.
“Flying is the worst one because people come back from flights and they tell you their story. And it’s like a horror story. They act like their flight was like a cattle car in the ’40s in Germany. Theyre like, ‘It was the worst day of my life. First of all, we didn’t board… for 20 minutes. And then we get on the plane and they made us sit there, on the runway, for 40 minutes! We had to sit there!’
Oh really, what happened next? Did you FLY through the AIR, incredibly, like a BIRD? Did you partake in the MIRACLE of human flight, you non-contributing ZERO? … YOU’RE FLYING! It’s amazing. Everybody on every plane should just constantly be going, OHMYGOD! WOW! … You’re flying. You’re sitting in a chair, in the SKY.”
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