Yesterday morning whilst listening to the radio, I heard someone mentioning 'Glasgow Spaceport' as a potential launch-pad for sub-orbital flights into the Earth's high atmosphere. I immediately baulked at the thought that Glasgow's fine air would be polluted by such enormous fuel combustions without first consulting the people who live there. Indeed, the absolute hubris that imposes these so-called benefits upon a nation without first asking its inhabitants seems to be the done thing within the ambition-laden modern era, ambition being none other than its etymology suggests, a hankering after attention by attention-seekers (in other words, infants who have never matured into responsible human beings).
Later, upon taking off into the Glennifer Braes, I gazed down over the valley, and for a few minutes the light came to shine upon Glasgow Airport. I got to thinking of 'Spaceports' again, and realized in a flash that this was it...! This brae upon which I was standing and spacing out was itself a 'spaceport', as a place where one departs into space. One really cannot say that with any airport since one is sealed in and pressurized to an enormous extent inside the guts of an airplane as to amputate you from any space.
The Glennifer Braes like the Kilpatrick Braes and the Campsie Fells to the north, are spaceports of the most natural and beneficial kind. These 'hills' allow us, unlike airplanes and their like, to encounter space first hand, to inhale it and have intercourse with it. Any machine that bottles you up removes these possibilities much to the detriment of the self and ultimately the planet which institutes and constitutes that self. So the next time, you hear of irresponsible scientists wasting more public money on infantile projects like 'space-travel' or 'star-trekking', just come on up here, under your own steam, and breath in the space of the natural world in one fell swoop...
Flight can simply be a matter of standing still and imagining, of spacing out and seeing.
You will be a healthier, and more spacious, creature for it...
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