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Everything is figureoutable, part two.

When Charles Lindberg was thinking about attempting the first transatlantic flight,

he ran into an issue. It wasn't that he had very little money. It wasn't that he was in nobody.

It wasn't even that he hadn't flown more than a few hours in one stop before. It wasn't even

that the others who had tried it had died. It was that he honestly didn't even know

how far or long the flight was. There is an incredible exchange in his memoir about the flight,

where in the early stages of preparation, Lindbergh is talking with a mechanic about his plan

to go from New York to Paris by a certain route. How far is that one of them asks?

It's about 3,500 miles. We could get pretty close by scaling it off the globe. Do you know where one is?

They say, there's a globe in the public library, the other replies. It takes only a few minutes to drive there.

I've got to know what the distance is before I can

make any accurate calculations. My car's right outside. First off, this should make us all very

grateful that we and our kids live in a time of Google searches and smartphones. But aside from that,

it should humble us as parents. Limburg was a guy who knew how to figure stuff out.

We talked about this.

That's what parents have to teach their kids.

Limburg and his partner ended up taking a piece of string,

stretching it from New York to Paris across the curve of a globe,

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