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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  1878 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What If We Really Are Alone in the Universe?

On the way back from Santa Fe, I sat next to a woman around my age, and I was working out some unit conversions in my notebook, pen and paper, just numbers and abbreviated units. She asks, "Looks like physics?", and I say, "Yeah! That's right, how'd you know?". And then she mentioned minoring in chemistry or something, but I forgot, because just a few exchanges later, we both went back to our own little worlds. Not even any awkwardness, just two people having some quality alone time on a plane. Which is about the most precious thing in the world after sharing a room to cut costs at a week-long conference.