We live in a wonderous age; an age where the technology at our fingertips is as amazing as it is at times incomprehensible. We can do things in a few minutes that would have taken many days just a decade ago. We move data, materials, and ourselves to and from various points on the globe with speeds unimagined even a half century ago. I can wake up in Chicago and go to sleep in San Francisco. As I type the charaters on my LCD laptop screen, I am 32,000 feet, 6.06 miles, above the surface of the earth.
This can boggle the mind. Am I really six miles above the ground? I am.
I am six miles above the ground and I just sat on the john and took a crap. I took a crap 6 miles above the good ol’ US of A; in an airplane traveling at over 500 miles an hour. If that isn’t progress, than I can’t tell you what is.