tartbrain wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote: >> >>> This is what the sudden removal of the thousands of large >>> jets circling over the towns of southern England is like. >>> I can sit in my garden and without realizing what it is >>> that's missing I can hear what bird song actually sounds >>> like, there is a deep silence that seem to go on forever. >>> >> The NY Times's The Lede blog had a poignant video someone >> made in "Garden Valley" in the U.K.--dunno where that is-- >> of a blackbird singing at dawn, something he apparently >> never normally hears uninterrupted because of the jets >> flying over: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wytoOvrVCQ >> >> I grew up in New York City and was totally inured to the >> constant sound of airplanes. Where I am now on the Jersey >> Shore, there's maybe one a week or so that comes over, >> and it always feels like a big intrusion. So I can >> sympathize. >> >> > > I used to live in an urban setting, near an airport, with regular flight > overhead. I sort of liked it -- it drowned out the noise of the winos and > crack-whores on the sidewalk below. (only half kidding, well maybe 3/4s -- > but definately an element of truth (for once in my postings)). > > I wonder how the ducks and geese and other birds feel in the vacinity of > Heathrow. They may be going "what ever happened to that wounderous song of > the humans? I so miss its tranquil drone and the patterns of its songs and > calls. Please neighbor bird, sign my petition to create a protected human > sactuary so we can once again hear the sweet wonderous sound of the human > birds." > > Humans are part of nature. Technology is part of humans' nature. Ergo the > creatures hatched from human nature -- are part of nature. "I just love the > smell of fresh laid asphalt in the morning. It smells like .. like Victory"
I have a municipal airport nearby. When I moved here it was not very busy. I mainly housed private planes and a helicopter school. There had been some attempts by regional airlines to use the airport but those were generally rejected by the community mainly because years ago a private plane taking off from the field and losing power crashed into the nearby shopping mall at Christmas time killing some folks (a national news story that day). About a year after 9-11 though I started noticing a lot of helicopter traffic overhead. I thought it was DHS going over the top. But after a while I also realized there was an increase in private jet traffic. So what I've figured is that due to a lot of restrictions at our three area large airports corporate jets have been moved to this field and those helicopters (which go right over my house since they follow the nearby freeway) are ferrying overpaid corporate bigwigs to and from the corporate jet to corporate headquarters probably in San Francisco.
