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Betreff: Re: Was lest ihr zur Zeit?
Zitat von Part-Time:Ich habe gerade Chris Hadfield, "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" gelesen. Im Buch beschreibt Hadfield auch eine Indy situation, ohne dass er sie als solche benennt. Nein, keine Alien-Erscheinung  Werde die Zeilen am Wochenende einscannen, bin gerade unterwegs.
"But one time, flying in a twin-engine Beechcraft Baron with Russ Wilson, a friend of mine who's a fırefighter, l was coming over the Panhanclle When something brushed lightly against my leg - my bare leg: it was a blistering summer day, so we were wearing shorts. Figuring it was probably an electrical cord dangling underneath the pilot's seat, I shifted around in my seat to get away from it. A moment later, though, there it was again, touching my leg, Weird. I looked down and what l saw, rising up from the floor, was a black snake. Not a garter snake and not a python, either, but certainly the biggest reptile l've ever seen in a Cockpit. I instinctively jerked my feet up onto my seat, which caused Russ to look down and spot the snake. For a few long seconds we stayed like that, frozen in disbelief. If a flight has been particularly challenging, fighter pilots like to say they’ve been busy “killing snakes and putting out fires.”
But this really was a snake, and trying to kill it at 10,000 feet seemed ill-advised. A failed attempt on its life was not going to make it any more kindly disposed toward us. Russ didn't wait: he grabbed the clipboard that held our checklists and used it to pin the snake down on the floor. Then he grasped the thing in the approved manner, just behind its head, and yanked it out from under my seat. Which was the snake’s cue to start whipping the rest of its body around, frantically trying to escape, while l tried to keep flying the plane as though nothing at all unusual was happening. What next? Without a whole lot of discussion, we decided to open the window on my side. It was small, just big enough to let smoke escape from the cockpit if there was a fire, but we were going 200 miles per hour, so suddenly it was like we were in the middle of a hurricane. The noise was wicked, our ears were popping from the drop in cabin pressure, there was an ornery serpent lashing all over the place. But firefighters are good in a crisis. Russ calmly leaned over me, stuck his hand out the window and somehow forced most of the snake out there too, then let go. Poof. It was gone. We quickly closed the window, and then we thought to look around: Anymore snakes in here? How did that one get in, anyway? Did that really just happen? A blast of nervous, post-adrenaline laughter. Already the episode felt unbelievable and had acquired the sheen of an anecdote. Then I wondered, “Where is that snake now?" When I pictured the scene below—a black snake writhing in free fall, confused and disoriented, smashing onto the windshield of a car - I stopped laughing, because I had a pretty good idea how that would feel."
"... but certainly the biggest reptile l've ever seen in a Cockpit ..." Offenbar kennt Hadfield Reggie nicht 
Now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying?
I'm done. 21.02.2025
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