Satellite View of Air Traffic Worldwide

[bheinemannify]

I See WHY global warmingscammers ...oeps I Said scientists kept Russian Data out of the calculations - Much less airtraffic there

[wusta34]

@bheinemannify i agree w avedic wtf r u talkin about

[nicolasspray]

0:46 to 0:51 airplane really fast on top...kk this is a fast motion? KKKKKKKkKkKkKk

[qabandiman]

from 0:46 to 0:51 on top.. that plane is seriously fast...

[avedic]

it's crazy how, when you zoom out, society behaves just like any other natural system...like ant behavior or blood being pumped through vessels. fascinating stuff...

makes you realize how safe air travel is considering how few crashes actually occur...

[proteanview]

@avedic Reminds me of the ants running around frantically outside my house, seemingly w/ no rhyme or reason. Guess they have places to be, too.

[bheinemannify]

@avedic WRONG with 40.000 liters heavy petrol like kerozine and 300 Victims á crash worst transportation possible added up on that the come and go facilities even more worse.ONLY Sourche of global warming and kept out of THE SCIENTIFIC EQUASIONS.PAY PLEASE! Already more then 20 years ago Warnings were Publiced about the carbonhydrateblankets airtraffic produces...ALSO KEPT OUT OF THE SCIENTIFIC EQUASTIONS! PAY PLEASE!

[avedic]

@bheinemannify wtf are you talking about?

[Strande92]

I can't let you do that, starfox.

[kaspariito]

does anyone know how many ppl are up in the air daily / night average..?

well, few years ago if im not mistaken, i heard somewhere it was like 200k ppl. but now, i think a lot more..

[premonitionOFFICIAL]

DAAAAAMNNNN

[TheJansaa]

Humankind is so awesome sometimes.

[b00nz]

0:47 - its prob russian missile test

[nocartman]

@b00nz Flying over the north pole, and its stretched out, that's why it looks like a super fast missile

[l0llakas]

You would not believe your eyes

If ten million fireflies

Lit up the world as I fell asleep

[TheDailyConversation]

Nice.

[1cecr1me]

#LOL @ USA, and then Europe!

[maaaaarjo]

0:47 near antarctica , ufo ? its soo fast :S

[lafmuf]

@maaaaarjo The airplanes up top are not speeding; they're traveling a shorter distance.

[GamingSuperBoy]

This looks like a mosquito-raft :D

[Hobu123]

What are those ultra fast flying objects in Arctic?

[Hobu123]

Obviously seems fast because the distance is spread out on map while actually it is short.

[lafmuf]

@Hobu123 The airplanes up top are not speeding; they're traveling a shorter distance.

[b00nz]

some fast fucking plane on 0:45-0:49

[MrRT1966]

Very fascinating! Thanks for showing!

[Rousecat]

Simply amazing!

[lloyd614]

So amazing to see. Often you feel like you're the only plane traveling in the sky.

[sfcalvinaz]

That is so hawt!!

[Coolflames101]

I think from this video we know who's doing the polluting in this world lolz

[DiNatalli]

How do they not crash unto each other? LOL

[mohedd]

@DiNatalli ... what is wrong with you.

[winterstellar]

Funny to look at the planes furthest to the north there! It looks like they're going hypersonic due to the map distortion!: )

[VeronicasPlace]

dayum. look at the usa

[eliporf]

WHO'S MOVING THE LIGHTS?

[Sp0tTheCat]

There are a lot more flights to/from hawaii than the assholes at any airline want you to believe. Those things take off by the half hour!

You can even clearly see the AK, WA, and CA departures!

[nivek52]

Madagascar:

Mr President, a man has sneezed in brazil!!

--SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!!!--

[14873]

@nivek52 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

[blooduhz]

thats one hella lot of using gas there.

[NoFearsFilms]

420 likes

[lorddoomsniper]

Go to North Pole

Move at warpspeed

[bnelo12]

@lorddoomsniper It was interesting to see what happens. It looks like they go faster then the speed of light. hahahah.

[fabis888]

looks like a nuclear war

[fibrillatorD]

surprising that so much, if not most international air traffic occurs during darkness

[collie6man]

UFO at 0:41!!!

[smasher32]

Why no love for Antarctica?

[blinkinairwave44]

and they say global warming isnt real? lol

[blinkinairwave44]

awesome mind fuck: get high, and try to follow one of the dots.

[DaveTV12]

I love how they look super fast around the caps of the earth

[GroundControlSC2]

I'd say we're choking ourselves out on fumes and toxic rain here in USA. It's yellow with aircraft. Haha that's so much pollution WTF

[TheMindHeist]

that one spec near Antarctica, WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING?

[DrMasaaki]

@TheMindHeist Svalbard a island in the Arctic , part of Norway.

[SirJohnIIIEsquire]

@TheMindHeist Antarctica?

[LordRonny]

@TheMindHeist FAJS-YSSY

[kalyandheeraj]

@TheMindHeist

nice obsservation ! they r between russia and canada I guess... And if you observe,they seem to be moving pretty fast too !! The distances near the poles are very less than that actually the map depicts..so, they seem to move faster comparitively..

[MicroCydonia]

Think I can see Oceanic Flight 815.

[dushan94]

@MicroCydonia ahahhaha

[MrMarkoCvetkovic]

@MicroCydonia you can't see that flight! they'r Lost! :p

[IronManTalks]

Fascinating.

[BlakeBarbieDoll]

The US and Europe are going to have to slow down and stop causing so much air polution. The US remained yellow---WOW

[TeleShaman]

wow watch the really fast ones at the north pole 0.o

[Kjello0]

@TeleShaman It's because the earth is stretched out at the poles to fit a square map. At equator the distance between 10°E and 20°E is about 1100 km, where as it just north of Svalbard is only about 190 km. But on a map, those 190 km is stretched out to be the same as 1100 km. If you look at the map Greenland and Australia seems to equal in size. Perhaps even Greenland a bit bigger. In real life Australia is 3,5 times bigger than Greenland.

[TeleShaman]

@Kjello0 Thanks Kj... And here I thought maybe it was Santa *Face palm*

I know all about the Earth being round and smaller at the top and bottom... I was just saying cool.

[BigCatLenny]

I find this quite interesting. I'm not sure how accurate it is since my GPS guide in the car glitches even with over a dozen satellites feeding it. But it's interesting. :-D

Wow, isn't it interesting how a purely technical 72 seconds can pull racism, science, pollution, human self-worth, nationalism, and hysterical humour out of so many people? I've been in an airplane 5 times wonder what scant few seconds this is. Was I up there? LMFAO!

[xbyiu97]

the more white people the more airplanes?

[eirefrance]

This is an awesome video, thanks a lot for providing it. Its striking how underserved sub-Saharan Africa is for flights.

[RealityHurts923]

Damn, this video make me feel like Im about as important as bacteria. Nothing more.Nothing less.

[Keidrag]

thanks for sharing

[KarthikSoun]

This just shows how much USA and Europe pollute and want other countries to cut down on emissions. Lie at plain sight.

[Alphasys]

Ok, nice vid but... What is the point of showing this?

[TheRetardferret]

@Alphasys What's the meaning of life?

[tharock220]

I love how the US becomes increasingly covered in yellow as daylight hits. What would we do if our precious high speed transportation was gone???

[warmbeer05]

world wide fire flies

[weeearthlings]

wow. creepy.

[slewofdamascus]

What are those fast-moving objects at the very top? They are travelling at speeds that seem beyond our realm. I happened to see a craft one morning at dawn a fewmonths ago moving accross the upper atmosphere at ridiculous speed (it looked like a star, it was not a shooting star, however). I woul have expected to see less traffic in the 12am-6am slot, but that didn't seem to be the case. The majority of commercial flights don't operate past midnight, so that's confusing.

[spudmustang]

@slewofdamascus The objects at the top of the screen appear to be moving faster because the map is distorted in order to appear flat. Although they are traveling over a much shorter distance than the objects in the middle of the screen, they are appear to be traveling over the same distance and that gives them the illusion of traveling at a greater speed. Notice how the objects near the equator appear to be moving much slower than flights in the northern hemisphere.

[slewofdamascus]

@spudmustang that makes sense, of course, I should have thought of that (duh). Thanks a bunch.

[jjmblue7]

@slewofdamascus The round image globe gets distorted when flattened out. At the top of the global map, where the arctic circle is, things get very stretched out, so things that are only moving a relatively short distance seem to be moving a very longs distance, but the time it takes from departure at one airport to arrival at another is maintained.

[Brandt761]

Sweet...

[samuelmichaud]

cool

[Teloculos]

brilliant video, cheers for uploading it

[ThisBoyTV]

Who says being an air traffic controller is stress free :)

[PatchesRips]

Wow, that is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! I had no idea.

[tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN]

Figured Australia would be more busy.

[RentTheSpokeMan]

Thats beautiful

[NaturalTwentyFilms]

Wow. That's pretty wild.

[skylineTG1]

who else is watching this for like the 10th time :)

[stormfox1]

do not go to hawai'i

it is overcrowded

[GameCtrl]

Really strange.Eastern europe's getting more air traffic than Southern America and I thought we were counted as pretty fucking uncivilized.I also can't understand the low traffic in Russia and the missing traffic in Japan.

[bazodee2]

so flights that depart at night time are less likely to be crowded? i wish ocean liners would make a come back...

[OfficialGetGln]

cool thx. I've also seen night shots of the earth which also shows where the infrastructure is located.

[Eaacker]

Thanks for posting this! It is kind of amusing that as the sun rises over America it turns into a virtual beehive of activity.

[KamilyonEnterprise]

I notice the traffic gathers from East America over to- just above Africa. What does everyone else think of this pattern during the day.

[JamesMorlan]

@KamilyonEnterprise I'd have to say a lot of people in New York probably wish they had a teleporter to get to Europe so they wouldn't have to sleep on a plane.

[Arppis]

That sure is a lot. I'm pretty surprised. 

[Da55Moose]

Proof that light causes airplanes to fly

[adolthitler]

Fuck me air travel seems so safe now with that many planes flying.

[braeduin]

Dedicated high sped rail network. The US needs one badly.

[DRExredsox23]

the earth has been takin over by a flying bacteria infection!!!

[TadRaunch]

A blip disappears over the bermuda triangle

[tubeman2010]

That was astounding. It was cool to see how the world was connected through air traffic.

[artin74]

nice video #WOW ,,if world insted of fighting on energy just spend some of that money to build some posts in ocean and conect the world electricity to eachother ,then we can save lots and can give so many poor people electricity as well ! just think about it ! it is posible ,,if we want to share!

[thorris11]

@artin74 Thats a nice thought:)

[paularbo]

@artin74 An elegant thought but the people controlling the energy in this country and others don't want to share. They want to sell.

[paularbo]

@artin74 @artin74 An elegant thought but the people controlling the energy in this country and others don't want to share. They want to sell.

[Clorow]

@artin74 Wow, that fixes EVERYTHING! You're a real genius, you should sell your idea to the US government.

[artin74]

@Clorow thank you ,but i'm just sharing my idea and talking about share!,why would i sell it?

[Marchochias]

@artin74

What would it take to get some litreacy in the population so that the posts on the internet weren't all incoherent shit like yours?

[artin74]

@Marchochias the population problem is fixable if we share education and mack people open to fix the religion problem ,then we can have more educated brains to fix more problems! give more get more ! i don't think you get it #LOL !

[gamersedge]

@artin74 You're right, i'm just seeing things from the angle of intelligence.

[gamersedge]

@artin74 You're a fucking idiot.

[artin74]

@gamersedge i think you are on race track and you see everything from your angle! people like you never get it! just fuck off !

[daeamarth]

I wonder how much of that is unnecessary travel and could be mitigated with network conferences...

[ZClipze]

That is amazing, when you think about it too

[PHILIBOYLONDON78PH]

This just emphasises the problem.. people are flying within the continent when they could be driving or going on the train. you NEED a plane to go from europe to the caribbean. I dont NEED a plane to go from London to Italy.

[brian4480]

Another weird thing i noticed is, some of the planes up in the north are going WAY faster then the rest of the planes, are those military aircraft?

[kevmo99]

@brian4480 That is because the world is actually round. To show the world in 2D, you have to really stretch the polar regions. That's why it looks like the planes are going way faster up there.

[winterstellar]

I just watched on BBC that the "climate skeptics" have shut down thir biggest association and that even the old leaders there now admit that all the science poits to man-made global warming as the most serious. We still see the odd uninformed global warming denier on YouTube basing his or her denial on old science or old propaganda from oil/coal lobbies, but everybody in science with any competence agree now that we're messing up horribly for ourselves and future generations.The deniers are nuts

[KillerDusk7]

cool,it's so weird how at around 0:20 there some going really fast at the very top.

[vortical911]

@KillerDusk7 the airplanes of course are not moving that fast. It's because the shape of the earth is rounded and all 2-dimensional maps are distorted. google "Map Projection"

[KillerDusk7]

@vortical911 lol I forgot

[CharlieWhitesWig]

I came!

[LiverAloneK]

neat

[panthera50]

cool !

[brian4480]

Anyone else notice the few dots up in the pole area landing in the middle of an ice island? Wonder what those planes are doing up there?

[winterstellar]

@brian4480 Oh. they have towns and airports and everything up in for instance Greelland, Svalbard, Iceland, Arctic Canada, Russia and so on. And also even more extreme places have research stations, weather stations or whatever that need supplies or change of personell. I have personally been to both Greenland and the most northernly inhabited town LongyearCity on the arctic norwegian island of Svalbard. Even in the winter the airport is in use there. : )

[StopmeatGoveg]

trippy

[adrian42583]

Looks like @ noon is the highest traffic, stress and busy way to travel, are they flying on solar power ?????????

Thanks for the info. thumps up...

[Erverino]

@adrian42583 No, it's just that nobody wants to wake up at 3am to get on a flight.

[DiScUrNmEnT]

Got Dam United States, sit yall asses down some where.

[SpraxIAKS]

Time to get my missiles.

[libertyfizz]

Nice to know that expats in South America can fly directly to the EU and avoid all the 4th amendment violating TSA groping.

[mozadek1]

Like Parasites.... I'm not pleased to see this... Also, I've heard that debris in orbit make it difficult to just go to space now.

I actually saw a pic that showed how many satellites are actually in orbit, and the amount is NOT at ALL what you ppl may think... It's like ants over a piece of cake...

[manonthemount]

funny to watch the yellow dots "flee" the onset of night and "chase" daybreak

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Interesting. Thanks ProteanView.

[whoo689]

Is each one of the dots supposed to represent a plane? HOT DAMN! Amazing how none of them ever crashes into another (or rarely, anyway).

[biozamadotcom]

cool perspective, bro

thanks for this

faved

[biozamadotcom]

they prolly had this before 9-11

[cmbmachine]

Look at the lucky people going to Hawaii.

[TEEWEE01]

thats pathetic that north america has the most air traffic of any country or continent.

[TheUSMetalhead]

What a cool wallpaper that would make. It's actually disgusting thinking of how much fuel is being burnt off to traffic all those souls, the majority of which probably have no real important reason to be flying in the first place. Beautiful none the less.

[nephthysuk]

Beautiful. I will be flying to the US from the UK the weekend after next.

[MustacheVerra]

Cool! I didn't realize the earth was flat! lol...

[ainefairygoddess]

It is interesting how pretty much mots of the traffic stays in the rich USA and Europe.

[raythetse]

I wonder what determines if a flight gets on this thing. Obviously they aren't showing every little 4 passenger flight.

[willdesha]

Looks like both sides of the world are involved in some sort of piss snowball fight.

[tilsetningsstoff]

We are virus ...(with Will Smith)

[tilsetningsstoff]

We are virus

[Zentz29]

Not a whole lot going on in Africa for how big it is.

[Gunderson002]

Although I must ask. Is this any particular date or just the average air traffic at any given time of day/night?

[proteanview]

@Gunderson002 I believe this is from 2007. It shows a 24-hour period. (note the change from light to dark)

[Gunderson002]

Very interesting.

[Blackliam]

cross pollination

[mrrenz123456789]

Most of the planes are in North America and Europe!

[Fallinldols]

I almost thought this was the flights per day ahaha. i would have shit

[kevmo99]

@Fallinldols It is. This is one 24 hour period.

[betamaxdc]

Sure it's not just tennis balls being launched from rival nations?

[winterstellar]

And to the idiot with the "money making scheme conspiracy idiot remark: Yeah, what a noney making scheme to have to resettle hundreds and hundreds of millions of poor people living by the coast and in lowlands, eh? Investors will be eader to throw money into such holes, no? Again, read science instead of tea-party or evangelist or Glenn Beck or other idiot propaganda, eh? If ther aren't too many difficult words in scientific articles, that is. F%¤k, the stupidity hurts here, so I leave now!Jeez!

[aednil]

awesome ;)

[winterstellar]

And what scientists have also found, which is alarming,is that when major climate changes like the one we're undoubtedly facing happens, they very often happen alarmingly fast. I t has sometimes been 5 degrees celsius within 5 years or so. I that were to happen within some decades, it would be devastating on a global scale. Civilisation could be threatened by the shortages of food and water and supplies and hundreds of millions of climate refugees etc.So not starting to try to stop it is..crazy.

[nate556]

@winterstellar This is incorrect. Plant life (and in turn, animal life) thrives in higher temperatures. The Earth isn't being turned into Dune, like they lead you to believe. A higher temperature with higher CO2 levels would benefit us much better than lower temperatures. Next, you can't stop changes in climate. It's a natural cycle our planet goes through.

[kevmo99]

@nate556 Dude. What we are experiencing is far from natural. The estimate is that humans increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the last 500 years that the natural cycles have doneduring the last 500,000,000 years. That's a one million times increase to the natural rate.

Also, CO2 does make plants grow. But unfortunately we are clearing forests off the Earth's surface at a rate of 13 million hectares per year. Now what is happening to all that CO2?

[nate556]

@kevmo99 You do know that most of the oxygen we breath comes from the algaes and weeds in the oceans, right ? You can chop every tree down on this planet, it'll have a small effect on the atmosphere(though i am in no way advocating deforrestation, i am against that). Things change, sometimes rapidly. Check out the Snowball Earth theory, and see the dangers of such high oxygen levels.

[MudHut67]

@nate556

I am interested, may I ask for evidence?

[kevmo99]

@nate556 We're not talking about high O2 levels. That has nothing to do with reality. Plant life, be it land or water dwelling, cannot cope with the increased levels of CO2 and maintain an equilibrium. If they could we would not be seeing this dramatic increase in CO2. For the fact that we are reducing the amount of plant life at the same time pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, logically leads to only one conclusion. That the major cause of this is anthropogenic.

[MindlessGlitch]

@kevmo99 "For the fact that we are reducing the amount of plant life"

I'm not sure if that is true, there are more trees in US now then there was in the past. However you could be right because of the decrease of rainforests. Determining whether plant life has decreased or increased globally seems difficult, in any case.

Also, increased CO2 is not something plant life will have to "cope with," because by itself CO2 does not harm plant life.

[kevmo99]

@MindlessGlitch There are far, far fewer trees in the US. East of the Mississippi used to be once entirely forested. About 90% of what was forested land is now gone in the lower 48.

With regards to plant life coping with CO2, I am well aware that plants love CO2. I was referring to their ability to maintain an equilibrium. Can plant populations currently produce O2 at the same rate we produce CO2? The answer is a well-established no. In fact, atmospheric CO2 has increased ~25% since 1958.

[MindlessGlitch]

@kevmo99 Where are you getting these tree statistics? And how were they quantified? The fact is, lumber is a product, planting trees makes money. If more lumber is needed, then more trees are planted. Farming is actually more profitable than simply going around and chopping down forests. You think businesses just go around chopping down forests?