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[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

wait, what? that's where there are planes flying all over North America? That's kind of creepy.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

the site i have been looking for!!

:: bows down ::

[bartok.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that North America needed so much

[zedinbed.livejournal.com]

Uhh yeah. That looks like way too many airplanes for no mid-air collisions. :\

Actually, the dots are probably not in proportion. :p

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think they're at least 1km across, to scale.

[c9.livejournal.com]

But Canada's flights are on there. I suspect that the USA and Canada must be part of this system, but Mexico is not?

[jamincan.livejournal.com]

I have a Star Alliance screensaver which, in the same vein as this website, shows all the flights of Star Alliance member airlines at a specific time and date across the globe. It's quite fascinating to see the sudden surge of traffic around a hub just before dawn, or all the flights from Europe to North America following the switch from night to day.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Are you sure they're Canadian airlines, and not US airlines taking polar routes through Canadian airspace.

[c9.livejournal.com]

True, I have no proof. It just appeared to be enough dots in unusual spots in our airspace. Certainly there's enough of a cluster on Toronto and Vancouver to indicate Canadian data, I think.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Odd. I actually read the data such that it looked like most of the dots over Canada looked to be coming down towards the east coast of the US from Asia and Europe. Maybe it is US airlines, and the dots around YYZ and YVR US flights landing in those cities? Now I'm curious...where did you get the image from?

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Duh. Never mind. Just saw the URL.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Nope. You're right. There is data on Canadian flights in there.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Wait. Is "is data" or "are data" grammatically correct?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Technically, it's one datum and multiple data.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I’m going to use that as my new grammar pet peeve. I’m sure my friends and coworkers will find it to be a refreshing change from hearing me nitpick about their use of “less” when they really mean “fewer”.