Paper News is a Good Time (Harper's)

News may be a hellscape but the humans who assemble "an issue" hide pockets of relief within. To wit, the erudite Harper's, August issue, under the auspicious title 'Flight Log':

(From the cockpit transcript of a Navy training flight near Seattle, in 2017. The exchange was released in May, following an investigation. Excerpts from the transcript were first published by the Navy Times.)

ELECTRONIC WARFARE OFFICER: Draw a giant penis. That would be awesome.

PILOT: “What’d you do on your flight?” “Oh, we turned dinosaurs into sky penises.”

E.W.O.: They would be like, “What the fu?”

PILOT: I could basically draw a figure eight, and turn around and come back. I’m gonna go down, grab some speed, and hopefully get out of the contrail layer, so they are not connected to each other. That would be so funny, airliners coming back on their way into Seattle. Just this big fu---

Do they get it done? Relieve your curiosity at Harpers.org.

People expend effort with you in mind, more than you realize.





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