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    Our maybe they treat airplanes as mystical objects used for fortune telling and other magical and religious purposes. That’s how stars and planets were treated before we figured out what they really are.

    Long ago, medicine, chemistry, alchemy, astronomy and astrology were just one big mess. People used that amalgamation for all the purposes you could imagine.

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        And so is alchemy. Useful and useless concepts were intertwined at the time, and it took centuries figure out what to keep and what to discard. Well, some individuals still held on to the trash ideas, while the rest of the world moved on.

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      Especially scheduled flights… They may see the same aeroplanes on the same schedule

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        And when the schedule is off, you get worried. Could it be a sign about the next crop? Should we have planted something else instead? Was it a mistake to marry this lady… So many questions.