[tonypapousek]

If we view this through the lens of the “American civil religion“, these spectacles aren’t too unlike crowds of folks gathering to witness miracles.

[ericmay]

It kind of is a miracle when you think about what goes in to creating those machines, maintaining them, and learning to fly them so well, of course crashes notwithstanding.

[tonypapousek]

Agreed, it's amazing they don't crash more often, given the complexity of it all.