![]() Until yesterday, flights of the mind were the only way to fly. Thanks to the images transmitted by the Webb telescope, we even have an idea what we would see if we were transported to distant galaxies thirteen billion years ago – a figure much easier to type than to comprehend. Anyone with an internet connection can see through webcams strapped to eagles, pilots or BASE jumpers, or zoom in on cities, towns or villages with Google Earth. ![]() Most of us haven’t been to space, but we’ve seen pictures. Even if you’ve never been on a plane, you know that others have. When we take such flights of the mind today, we do so with imaginations conditioned by the experience of actual flight, direct or vicarious. I magine you could fly, above rooftops and mountaintops, beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, up and out to the planets, to the stars.
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