Cratylus
ddobbs | March 10, 2009From Cratylus, an intriguing visualization of worldwide air traffic, with notes on carbon impact:
This simulation shows the world-wide air traffic over a 24-hour period. Watch as day dawns across the globe: The hubbub of activity created each morning in the skies gradually tapers off in the dead of night, only to come roiling back the following morning.
According to NATCA, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association: "On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies in the United States ... and in one year, [U.S.] controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and…