Originally Posted by anon2k2

I agree with so much of this. Especially the part about the magic of flight.

My undergrad degree is Math/Physics. I totally get the theory and concept of how low pressure/high pressure from fluid dynamics work. I can probably still do the dang Bernoulli equations to solve for the pressure differential.

But every time I get on an airplane, no matter how many hundreds of times I've done it, I still have at least one moment where the following thought goes through my head: "I'm 6 miles up in the air in an aluminum tube along with 250 other people, going 600 miles per hour from place X to place y. This is just f*ing magic!!!!!"