John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Category: Bits and Pieces • Technology
Posted on: June 12, 2007 12:30 AM, by John Lynch
So I was watching Adult Swim last night (Futurama x2 followed by The Family Guy) and they were running a cool visualization by Aaron Koblin of the air traffic over the US.
There is more at Koblin's site.
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Comments
It should be criminal to broadcast this over YouTube. Link to the QuickTime source!
Posted by: Matt J | June 12, 2007 3:33 PM
Koblin himself appears to have put it on YouTube. And I did link back to the original site with the Quicktime versions. So what's your point?
Posted by: John Lynch | June 12, 2007 3:52 PM
Here is one of the QuickTime links
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/Documentationl2.html
Aaron's homepage GUI is a little more geeky than user friendly. What can I say, I liked it. Take a moment to play.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | June 12, 2007 3:56 PM
My point is that the video loses a huge amount if viewed in the low resolution YouTube version.
Posted by: Matt J | June 12, 2007 5:06 PM
That's truly cool.
The artist's website was giving me a headache after a long day at work - did anyone find anything for other countries or continents? A global version would be even better.
Posted by: VancouverBrit | June 12, 2007 9:55 PM
That was absolutely amazing, just to think the scale of human achievement that both the video and, more so what it depicts, actually represent!
Posted by: James | June 13, 2007 2:41 AM
It represents an awful lot of C02 emissions.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | June 13, 2007 2:44 AM
Hey, Matt J: yeah, you have a point. But you don't consider that those of us who do not have fast connections would never even have come across this without a first reasonably quick viewing here and/or at YouTube that BOTH have links to the original which allows us slowpokes to set aside an entire night to download the quicktime version. These are helpful PREVIEWS. Do you have any conception of how useful that is to us? Or do you just like acting the snob?
Criminal? Relax, man! Try to understand what we boonies have to put up with. We aren't all yet as well connected as you are. JFHC
Posted by: Arnosium Upinarum | June 13, 2007 7:20 AM
Monsieur Canuck et Quebecois, Yabut, how much?
A good rule of thumb is one pound CO2 per passenger/mile on domestic flights. Et, two pounds CO2 per passenger mile on international flights. THERE IS NO WAY TO REFRAME THIS FACT.
Jet setters/yuppies; please take note. WE FLY. YOU DIE.
Posted by: gerald spezio | June 13, 2007 12:04 PM
It should be criminal to broadcast this over YouTube. Link to the QuickTime source!
And yet I don't see a single link in your comment.
Interesting.
Posted by: LafinJack | June 13, 2007 3:25 PM