>I also thought something I would like to ask the airplane pilots we have >among >us. Have any of you ever tried to take off immediately after the sunset, > >flying straight to the sun's azimuth, trying to see several sunsets in a >raw?
One of the most famous pilots in the world included a version of this in his even more famous book. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in the Petit Prince, has his title character, the Little Prince, tell him how back on his home planet -- a very small place -- he watches as many sunsets as he wants, just by pushing his chair along... BT Bill Thayer LacusCurtius http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman
