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ccpetersen · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: Flying anytime?

Amazingly cool video from Astronomy Picture of the Day:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/flightpatterns_koblin.mov
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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 2:35 pm Post subject:

Yes - very cool indeed.
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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

Wow!! that is incredible! It looks like fireworks sometimes.

It also looks as though the airspace over the eastern US should be opaque with airplanes.
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ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

OK CC - 'splain how come the background is always dark. Is it a special camera that is just picking up the light?

The planes that go "poof" and suddenly disappear in the middle of the Pacific (Hawaii) are freaky!
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Bruce · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

The way I read the description it's not actually a picture of the planes but a computerized representation of each flight's path. Still cool though. I enjoyed seeing all the flights launched from Europe before we're really awake over here.

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Lizden · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject:

That is really cool!

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bobsouer · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

CC,

Very cool. And as it happens, I was on a trans-Pacific flight that day in 2005, coming home from Manila.
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Lizden · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject:

I kept trying to remember what that reminded me of...and it just hit me:

The final scene in "War Games" with Matthew Broderick, where "Joshua" is running all the "Global Thermonuclear War" scenarios!

Sorry...it was driving me crazy!!!!
(Yep..back to my normal, oh-so-exciting life!) Rolls Eyes

It IS really cool!

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davidmonteath · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:43 am Post subject:

Wow, thats pretty but horrible, no wonder your skies were suddenly so clear after all the planes were grounded following 9/11.
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ccpetersen · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:46 am Post subject:

David,

I remember that day only too well... I had the computer on and found a web site where tracking for flights was still being displayed... it was amazing to watch the "board" clear...

That night was the eeriest because there were none of the usual flights, except for fighter jets occasionally patrolling...

well... and we were still in front of CNN on the TV and had been there since just after 9 that morning...

<shiver>
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:20 am Post subject:

It was astonishing to see how clear the air got with all the planes grounded.
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ccpetersen · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

Well, there was that and the fact that it was not humid for a few days...
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TheVoiceOfBob · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject:

That is pretty cool.

I showed this to my wife this evening, she said, "Wow! Looks like sperm!"

Have I ever mentioned my wife is a little twisted as well?
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