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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Marcus on November 24, 2013, 10:36:02 AM
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British Airways billboard points to passing planes in real time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vq7yS4ghE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vq7yS4ghE#ws)
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You can't surprise me any more with what technology can do!
I'm just thankful for living in the era when all these wonderful things emerged and are being refined. I was a kid when black and white TV arrived in Newcastle, accessible only by very tall antennae masts on house roofs. If you wanted to ring up, most of us went to the red phonebox and pushed our four pennies in and dialled the number.
We've come a very long way.
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Ah yes....I remember it well!! We've come a very long way, "in a very short period of time"
The folowing are the five "Great Ages" of human progress and their appoximate duration:
Stone Age.....3.4 million years
Bronze Age.....2,500 years
Iron Age......500 years
Industrial Revolution......80 years
Information Revolution......20 years
Where the hell's it all going to end?????? :grin
You can't surprise me any more with what technology can do!
I'm just thankful for living in the era when all these wonderful things emerged and are being refined. I was a kid when black and white TV arrived in Newcastle, accessible only by very tall antennae masts on house roofs. If you wanted to ring up, most of us went to the red phonebox and pushed our four pennies in and dialled the number.
We've come a very long way.
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All the screen needs is a GPS and a connection to "Flight Radar" an iPhone app.
The app lets you know all the details for flights in the air in real time. So you know when planes travel over you their call sign, their point of origin, airline and destination.
Kinda the "must have app" for any hijackers or terrorists.
A.
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Damm.....that's kinda taken the magic out of it!! :well ha!
All the screen needs is a GPS and a connection to "Flight Radar" an iPhone app.
The app lets you know all the details for flights in the air in real time. So you know when planes travel over you their call sign, their point of origin, airline and destination.
Kinda the "must have app" for any hijackers or terrorists.
A.