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Hm, appears to be missing a lot of smaller airports in the USA. My home airport (E45) in particular. I'm guessing it's only using airports that have commercial air carrier service of some sort.
This runs slower on my computer than MGSV in ultra settings running on 4k resolution.
For what it's worth, it's also fun that key elements of the text are dynamic. When I first landed on the page with noscript suppressing any script, I saw:
> Most Remote Airport
> … at … is the most remote; from the nearest airport, .
Usually if I see any text, I don't bother enabling script, so this confused me. Luckily I did enable the script and then saw the principle UI element on the page. :)
This runs slower on my computer than MGSV in ultra settings running on 4k resolution.
Pretty soon there's going to be a nice big new polygon added in the middle of the South Atlantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena_Airport
What a cool project! This is very fun to play with in conjunction with the ETOPS (extended twin-engine operations) settings on the Great Circle Mapper. http://www.gcmap.com Among other things it drives home how remote the waters MH370 disappeared in are.
This runs slower on my computer than MGSV in ultra settings running on 4k resolution.
Pretty soon there's going to be a nice big new polygon added in the middle of the South Atlantic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena_Airport
Where you will see larger polygons is across the United States, as corrupt local governments get paid by land developers to close airports and sell off the land. Often these kangaroo councils operate under the guise of pandering to local residents, who moved next door to an airport and then started bitching about it in hopes of having it closed and boosting their property values once.
Make no mistake: These people are stealing from all of us. Once an airport is closed, we'll never get it back, and part of our national transportation infrastructure is destroyed. Not to mention the damage to the future of aviation, which can't fund innovation and invention if there's no place to land. See the current scam that's threatening the Santa Monica airport for an example.
This is what happens when clowns and criminals run a city government: We can laugh at them, but they cause real and permanent damage.
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Not addressed to you, rather to a sibling commenter. Hellbanned users cannot be directly replied to. ngoldbaum, you should check a user's comment history before alerting them to the fact that they're hellbanned. If there's a clear reason then don't. In this case, he was hellbanned because he called someone an idiot on his very first post.
I think it's sad to see a hellbanned person contribute productively, since obviously they have no idea they've been banned.
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Not addressed to you, rather to a sibling commenter. Hellbanned users cannot be directly replied to. ngoldbaum, you should check a user's comment history before alerting them to the fact that they're hellbanned. If there's a clear reason then don't. In this case, he was hellbanned because he called someone an idiot on his very first post.
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"In addition, astronauts now carry passports and other documents, including traveller's cheques, in case of emergency landings."
Given the high cost of every pound when launching things into space this seems at first glance to be a pretty lousy idea. It seems to me solving this problem through diplomatic channels would be a much better plan given the fairly low probability of this event.