Comments on: The Wonderfully Filthy https:/2010/05/the-wonderfully-filthy/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Joel Seligmann https:/2010/05/the-wonderfully-filthy/#comment-388 Fri, 14 May 2010 23:30:34 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/dev_blog/?p=77#comment-388 And certainly there would be no planes nor X-Plane nor this thoughtful and excellent blog without the slimy filthiness that is oil.

All those car graveyards could easily be mirrored by the vast airplane graveyards.

Burtynsky depicts the ugly vistas of man's oily industrial landscapes as a scourge that cries out for a solution. Nonetheless, we rely on the ancient substance so much that the only real solution to our addiction is the complete depletion of all sources and reserves. It's one of the myriad paradoxes of our modern existence.

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