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Title: Curious Sites
Post by: string on 2014-08-25, 12:34:03
A thread to share sites which you find interesting or novel or useful or downright daft.

Explain a little of what is in it.

Spammers will be deforested.
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: string on 2014-08-25, 12:36:19
The following site , FlightRadar24, shows the current position of aircraft as per the GPS system.

http://www.flightradar24.com (http://www.flightradar24.com)

It updates every few seconds so if you watch a flight it will move very, very slowly. You can drag the map to different places.

Unless you join and pay them some money it dies after half an hour and you have to restart it.

It’s a bit like watching paint dry but It could become interesting in some situations.
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: ersi on 2014-08-25, 12:49:50

The following site , FlightRadar24, shows the current position of aircraft as per the GPS system.

And in an age like this, airplanes still disappear without trace.
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: Frenzie on 2014-08-25, 13:30:54
And in an age like this, airplanes still disappear without trace.

Well, if it isn't found within a radius of a few dozen km of a reasonable estimate given the last known coordinates…
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: Sparta on 2014-08-25, 18:13:20
Quote
share sites which you find interesting


it seems any kind of a forum  is not a bad idea .

and if have some plan to overload Brain with Huge informations this evil is just so evil --> facebook.com
just -like- some  pages of   scientists , politicians , artists , etc
or join some groups  ...  

then enjoy the theory of everything .  :spock:

...or probably OCD    :left:

Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: Belfrager on 2014-08-27, 10:07:41
A thread to share sites which you find interesting or novel or useful or downright daft.

Since we have some posters interested in technology, computers, programming and such, I find this blog interesting to read occasionally:

Critical Uncertainties (http://criticaluncertainties.com/)
Complexity, Emergence & Risk in Using Technology

It has some posts better than others of course. Sometimes it gets a bit technical.
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: jax on 2014-08-27, 12:45:23

It’s a bit like watching paint dry but It could become interesting in some situations.


I use this site quite a bit. The mobile version lets you see which airplane is in the horison right now, useful when firing BUK missiles to see which airplane you are about to accidentally hit.

It is helpful to see which route the plane will be taking and thus if it is better to have a window seat on the left or right side of the plane.

The map should have been combined with the one from blitzortung.org (http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en) so that you could see which planes are about to fly into a thunder storm.
Title: Re: Curious Sites
Post by: jax on 2014-08-27, 12:56:36
If you prefer more virtual strikes, try IP Viking (http://map.ipviking.com/) for a real time world map.