Life imitates Star Trek.

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Pete
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Pete Snell
Department of Physics
Royal Military College
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada
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In a car everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer
and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame. On a cycle the frame is
completely gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the
scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is
overwhelming.

Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (1974)