World Air Traffic 24 Hour Period

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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[Ramms7ein]

lucky for us pacman doesn't fly in the atmosphere

[joecracko]

At first I was like, "Go Europe!" But then I was like, "Holy shit, America".

[Fred Strydom]

There's a wormhole in Greenland.

[AnarchoPinkoEuroBr]

Oceania-South America avoiding temperate turbulence, I think.

[AnarchoPinkoEuroBr]

Planes that go to and from America to East Asia usually pass by there I think.

[AnarchoPinkoEuroBr]

I'm South American...

Can buy/construct a boat and take refugee in Africa, the Pacific or Antarctica if needed...

I will survive. :D

[Var Gur]

HD 720p watch?v=sG0HrmiIcpc

[Dennis Gutknecht, Jr]

Exactly, like I said, thank you for tacitly admitting the error of your ways. Good day. :)

[Dennis Gutknecht, Jr]

Thank you for tacitly admitting the error of your ways. Good deay. :)

[Dennis Gutknecht, Jr]

And you'll note that even tho the US was attacked directly by Japan only, we still sent a large contingent of troops to fight the Germans on the European and African fronts. Yet Russia failed to join the allies in a declaration of war against Japan until the war was nearly over. Now I don't buy into the idea of the US "saving" Europe's asses myself (it was a team effort to say the least, and in the US's best interest for sure), but your version of history is even less accurate than that.

[Dennis Gutknecht, Jr]

What "facts" have you provided? Russia was content to sit the war out entirely (with only small discussion of jumping into the conflict in 1942 or 1943) until drawn in by Germany's invasion in late June of 1941. Less than six months later was Pearl Harbor, followed by Germany's declaration of war on the United States. So you have both the US and Russia getting into the war within 6 months of each other.