Here is an amazing time-compressed
animation of all the world's commercial air traffic as compiled by an effort by
the Zurich University of Applied Sciences,
NASA,
Technorama, and
FlightStats. Note the day/night
region moving across the face of the Earth as you watch the air traffic patterns
progress. One interesting phenomenon is the 5-point star that forms and the dissipates
over Europe.
RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools"
in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide
me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing
my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet)
was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity.
Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line,
and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...