I am reading (and almost finished with) Memoirs of a Geisha, which I highly recommend. At one point in the book the main geisha takes a plane trip and I thought of a very random thing: How is it that a big hunk of heavy metal is able to fly in the air? Feathers fly in the wind. Balloons float up to the great blue beyond. So what makes a plane rise and stay in the air? If anyone knows the answer to this I would love to learn.
On my drive home from work today I saw two deer on the side of the highway...alive that is. They were right near the road eating grass. I was so excited! I've never seen wild deer.
I worked with foam and mat board to create pictures for my education exhibit for February. I really enjoyed it...which is good because I will be making a lot of these in the future. (Katrina, if you read this, I thought of you during this process and all the times I remembered you talking about mat board in your art projects).
Friday, January 27, 2006
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i myself did not read all of this, because i'm pretty lazy. but here is your plane answer:
http://www.aeromuseum.org/Education/Lessons/HowPlaneFly/HowPlaneFly.html
personally, i hate to fly, because i don't care what science says or about aerodynamics...people just aren't supposed to be jetting into the sky at 500 mph!
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