Last night I watched the NOVA special on the "battle of the X-planes. I was staggered by the massive, unpresidented and over-whelming effort that was involved in the creation of these two (2!!!!!!!!) flying machines. And just think, its only been 100 years since the first flying machine went up. Billions of dollars, thousands of geniuses and organizational effort that makes the manhatten project look like amatuer hour at the cub scouts. Yet in the end I was under-whelmed. The creation was not only temporal, but of no real value to humanity. It will feed none, it will heal none, it will enlighten none. It will kill and threaten which, even in the name of peace, is evil. The concept kind of reminds of the sign that hung over Auschwitz "Arbeit macht Frei" (work makes you free). Contradiction is never the sole evidenct of hypocracy. But to devote the best that humanity has to offer giving thier all in the most organized and comprehensive effort in history for the purpose of creating an 21st century weapon of death has to be the poster-child for the idea of complete contradiction-in-terms. We are capable of more than even "I"imagine (which is saying something...ask anyone who knows me. I'm the original "imagination commando"!)...