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Global air traffic over a 24h period

by Simon at 16:20 22/01/09 (Blogs::Simon)

... condensed into one minute, based on large civil aircraft transponder data. You won't believe your eyes.

http://radar.zhaw.ch/resources/airtraffic.wmv
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simon

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Global air traffic over a 24h period	Simon - 16:20 22/01/09
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Bruce Ure - 16:24 22/01/09
Bloody hell! :-(
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	David Crowson - 16:36 22/01/09
Wonder what those ones that zoom across the top are ? Spy planes perhaps, but they seem to speed up to unreal velocities.... -- bombholio
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Bruce Ure - 16:42 22/01/09
That's yer perspective innit. They're going the same speed as all the others, but they look quicker cos of the projection. --
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Simon - 16:43 22/01/09
It's Santa :) Actually it's an effect of the map projection. -- simon
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Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Dominic Search - 03:55 23/01/09
> I think it could be time for a new world soon what with all that pollution. :-( http://999itstime.com/ :-) Thanks for joining us Si... of all the similar-ish campaigns I seen come & go over the years, I think this is the one that will galvanise large-scale public support... if it doesn't then we really are d.o.o.m.e.d! Even before launching on Wed, we've had a dizzying array of calibre projects and big players talking to us about possible collaboration. This could easily snowball into super massive... or fizzle out as a dead dream... we will have a clearer picture in a month or so. Exciting times :) -- thoth
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Simon - 09:38 23/01/09
All the best with the campaign, have you got a promo web logo I can put up on Renew-Reuse-Recycle? ... and if you do any consciousness-raising press videos (eg for YouTube), please let me know so I can run them in a news story on the site. Only last night, a friend waved a huge capacity memory stick in front of me and the single thing I could think of was "All that knowledge, stored on something that's no bloody use at all when the electricity's off". I might start writing stuff down on clay tablets :-) -- simon
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Dominic Search - 10:16 24/01/09
Cheers... and yes please do use the logo. Positive TV are documenting the whole things and Pixel Addicts amongst many others are involvement, so there will be promo video a plenty :) Any idea where I can lay my hands on legion of stone engravers?.. in 5,000 years I still want people to be looking back and remembering today as the Age of Stupid! Dom
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Simon - 10:20 27/01/09
Stone engravers eh? Fancy knocking up one of these? Mer-em-Maat (bigger) In 5000 years, we'll be - literally - legendary. We are "Atlantis". -- simon
Re: Global air traffic over a 24h period	Dominic Search - 15:18 27/01/09
LOL - excellent :) -- thoth