One flight, two map projections

[infobeautiful@vis.social]

One flight, two map projections

[jackcole@mstdn.social]

@infobeautiful Great Circle Navigation, Distance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance

[flipper@mastodonapp.uk]

@infobeautiful I've done that flight - 16 hours from SF to Dubai. It's not fun on either projection.

[bipolaron@scholar.social]

@infobeautiful glad you missed the giant spindle at the north poll of that globe!

[clonejo@social.troll.academy]

@flipper @infobeautiful my first long distance flight was Copenhagen -> San Francisco. 11 hours of midday sunlight 🥲, given that we started at 11:00 local time and arrived at 13:00

[aizuchi@hachyderm.io]

@infobeautiful oooh, right through the auroral cusp! Lots of electrons precipitating on you, both ways

[hcf@infosec.exchange]

@aizuchi @infobeautiful electrons would be fine, for most matter protects against them very well. I've heard that at the air travel altitude it's mostly fast neutrons showering down from the secondary decay.

[aizuchi@hachyderm.io]

@hcf @infobeautiful exactly, it’s the mass and energy of the particles that matters. The cusp is a jacuzzi of energy, tho

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@infobeautiful deportation trip is it?!

[tml@mementomori.social]

@infobeautiful Please don't even mention Mercator in the alt text. It will just confuse people. The bottom map is not even close to Mercator.