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this is 99% invisible

i'm roman mars invisible. I'm Roman Mars. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has been used and exposed on.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression as pretty as an airport.

Airports are ugly, some very ugly.

Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.

This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross,

and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Mermansk.

Mermansk Airport is the only exception of this otherwise

infallible rule and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their

designs. From Douglas Adams the long dark tea time of the soul.

I think so many airports were not designed for the things that they have to do right now and so it is all

fixing as you go there there wasn't some great master plan so so when it comes to

the ugliness and general dysfunction of airports

they're a little bit off the hook a little bit off the hook but there's plenty of room for

improvement

when I spoke with Allison Ariuff about the design of airports, she said to me,

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