World air traffic over 24 hours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=z1US_4uf4YE

The yellow dots are aircraft.

It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes. You can tell it was summer
time in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet.
You could see that it didn't quite set in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise in
the extreme south.

Notice that as evening approaches, the traffic is predominantly from the US to Europe and when daylight comes, the traffic switches and it
is predominantly from Europe to the US.

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Originally Posted by littleroundman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=z1US_4uf4YE

The yellow dots are aircraft.

It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about 2 minutes. You can tell it was summer
time in the north by the sun's footprint over the planet.
You could see that it didn't quite set in the extreme north and it didn't quite rise in
the extreme south.

Notice that as evening approaches, the traffic is predominantly from the US to Europe and when daylight comes, the traffic switches and it
is predominantly from Europe to the US.

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That is amazingly beautiful! Who would not want to be 'out there' looking down on that? Not that we could see the little yellow dots...but you know what I mean...:RpS_biggrin:

Honestly, it looks more like moeydownthedrain's scrambling for a new excuse.

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Originally Posted by Whip

Honestly, it looks more like moeydownthedrain's scrambling for a new excuse.

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LOL...Whip! How could you take something so beautiful and turn it into that??