Human beings are special.

I mean that in two ways: of course you the reader are special, I am special, our parents and children are special. But also, humans in general are special when compared to the other species with which we share the planet. Not even considering ferns and frogs and falcons, but just species which we can see are sentient to some degree, still, Homo sapiens is different from all the others.

We’re pretty sure that our self consciousness is unique to us; our moral sense; even our understanding that there are indeed all these other organisms that we’ve taken the time to name and study.

And the big one: we understand that each of us is going to die someday. Even while we know that intellectually, many of us take a long time to really buy into that idea, deep down. But as we know that we will have an end, we also plan for what will happen when that time comes. We buy life insurance. We write a will ensuring that our loved ones

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On a hang glider the side wires are critical bits of the airframe assembly.

The hang glider airframe consists of aircraft-grade aluminum tubing and flexible steel cables, designed so it can spread out to be a wing some 30'+ wide and also fold into a compact cylindrical package for transport and storage. The side wires connect the middles of the leading edges to the kingpost (top) and the control triangle or basetube (bottom), both mounted…

Off in the distance a group appears, lightly illuminated. As they draw nearer, one separates from the small crowd and approaches more quickly than the rest. Stopping a few paces away, they ask a most pertinent question:

"Oh, heroic and erudite questing noder, wilt thou help?"

Continued at Side Quest 2024

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   Well, we find ourselves at the beginning of another of them E2 Quests.

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