The air is no longer thin

 

I was confused by the telephone and how a voice could travel through a wire.

Now, they’ve taken away the wire and our voices somehow travel through thin air.  How can this be?

We push radio signals into the sky, and television pictures across the land.  We beam satellite images and laser beams here and there.

And every minute of every hour we fly airplanes around the world, and from here to there, along with our luggage.

We send up hot-air balloons and children’s kites.  We shoot rockets and missiles into the atmosphere, without a second thought.

I expect that when our air reaches the saturation point, clouds will no longer stay afloat, and we’ll all be crushed when they fall.

That will be the end as we know it.

I'm just saying’