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Before becoming a full-time podcaster, I used to work in the aerospace industry.

Now, if you just heard that and you think I did something exciting, like be a fighter pilot, an astronaut, skydiver.

You're wrong. I'm sorry. I work behind a computer. It was a job that I love. Please hang with me.

I still have some good stories here.

But I wasn't doing any of those really interesting things.

But what I was doing was a lot of data and research on the aerospace industry at large,

primarily below the atmosphere.

Once again, sorry, nothing in space.

But the point is, I can remember one time working on this project, and my big focus was to determine where some of the older aircraft

ended up. Like, where was their final destination? And I'll keep some of the intense stories

to myself here. I don't want to scare anybody. But one thing that we found that happened really

common was the navigation system and the autopilot would go out. Now, not all those ended in

really traumatic crashes or anything

like that, but it very regularly ended up in the aircraft landing maybe in an emergency situation

because it couldn't find the airport or just landing somewhere completely wrong altogether.

And that was like that AirCross Final Destination. They ended up scrapping the airplane or

whatever had to happen with it. And I was always really intrigued by this. And thankfully, technology has come a long way.

And for the most part, they get to where they're supposed to go now. But my point in sharing

is this, if the airplane doesn't course correct along the way, literally thousands of times,

it will never end up in the right destination. Even if they initially start off on the right path to get there,

they are not going to end up there because wind, because all the other things that happened,

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