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[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
> On the other hand there is the Chinese monkey-king, Sun Wukong, who 
> travelled
> with a monk from China to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from India.
>
>>He acquired the powers of shapeshifting known as the "72 transformations",
>>supposedly the more versatile and difficult set of skills that allows him 
>>to
>>transform into every possible form of existence, including people and 
>>objects.
>>He also learned about cloud-traveling, including a technique called the 
>>Jīndǒuyún
>>which covers 108,000 li (54,000 km or 33,554 mi) in a single flip.

He could save some effort by leaping only 8,544 miles.

- Gerry Quinn