Quantum Jump Airlines

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This was my second quantum flight.

“Flight”… I don’t think that’s what it should be called anyways. The “flight” part is really just for the first part of the travel experience, just to reach over 150km, where there’s enough vacumm for the quantum engine to work its magic. No one wants for your body to get mixed with air molecules anyway… or worst.

Indeed it would seem miraculosly. To travel from one planet (Mars for me, in this case) to other (again, Earth for me) in just a fraction of a second, or is is a fraction of a nano-second? I’m not sure, this is not my area of expertise, although I have a good overall understanding of the technology. And let me tell you, at first, it did get really awful.

But for the most part, it is actually pretty confortable. The new rocket technology gets you to lower orbit pretty smoothly, and gets you back into the atmosphere quite uneventfuly. But the quantum engine… it sometimes gets really weird.

Then the captain said there would be a little “turbulence”…

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