http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/05/japan-aerospace-exploration-agency-to-launch-the-worlds-greatest-paper-airplane-from-space/ Deliciously Geeky... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:25:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/05/japan-aerospace-exploration-agency-to-launch-the-worlds-greatest-paper-airplane-from-space/comment-page-1/#comment-380713 Rick Lee Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:18:38 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/04/05/japan-aerospace-exploration-agency-to-launch-the-worlds-greatest-paper-airplane-from-space/#comment-380713 Back in the 70s I was on a college trip to New York City and one of my friends made a paper airplane and smuggled it to the observation deck of the Empire State Building. We stood around him blocking the view of security guards while he launched it. It was a sublime and beautiful experience. We stood there watching the airplane make lazy circles in rising air out over Manhattan for quite a long time. It still hadn't lost any altitude when we finally left. Back in the 70s I was on a college trip to New York City and one of my friends made a paper airplane and smuggled it to the observation deck of the Empire State Building. We stood around him blocking the view of security guards while he launched it. It was a sublime and beautiful experience. We stood there watching the airplane make lazy circles in rising air out over Manhattan for quite a long time. It still hadn’t lost any altitude when we finally left.

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