Many will already know the excellent app https://www.flightradar24.com which allows you to watch and follow almost every flight in the world. Flightradar24 is a Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map. It includes flight tracks, origins and destinations, flight numbers, aircraft types, positions, altitudes, headings and speeds. It aggregates data from multiple sources but, outside of the United States, mostly from crowdsourced information gathering by volunteers with ADS-B receivers. You can watch on your PC or download a mobile app. To see the sheer number of flights in the air, anywhere, at any given moment, on the zoomable scrollable maps is just mind-boggling. Anyway, what prompted this was the news that there is now an ADS-B receiver in the Antarctic, and earlier this afternoon it tracked its first landing at Troll Airfield in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, a Boeing 737 from Cape Town to Troll.

Many will already know the excellent app https://www.flightradar24.com which allows you to watch and follow almost every flight in the world. Flightradar24 is a Swedish internet-based service that shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map. It includes flight tracks, origins and destinations, flight numbers, aircraft types, positions, altitudes, headings and speeds. It aggregates data from multiple sources but, outside of the United States, mostly from crowdsourced information gathering by volunteers with ADS-B receivers. You can watch on your PC or download a mobile app. To see the sheer number of flights in the air, anywhere, at any given moment, on the zoomable scrollable maps is just mind-boggling. Anyway, what prompted this was the news that there is now an ADS-B receiver in the Antarctic, and earlier this afternoon it tracked its first landing at Troll Airfield in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, a Boeing 737 from Cape Town to Troll.

It really is a shame you cannot debate without personal infantile cranial insults. You lost the debate in your first sentence. The subject does interest me grossly as i've researched the Globular fallacies and deficiencies of the Southern Hemisphere flights. MH-370 Obliterate's your whole copy and paste concept Simples. There is nothing you can tell me about this topic

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Is that really the best you've got? Really?

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Hahaha you're getting all tangled up in your Copy and paste frenzy. Make your mind up. I don't need to prove you're wrong, you do a Grand job doing it yourself. Please carry on

Poor Stanley. You, of all people, praying Occam in aid must be one of the most ironic and amusing things I've read in a long while. You are to Occam what Toulouse Lautrec was to pole-vaulting.

There are over 1,000 active satellites currently in orbit around the Earth, and over 2,500 more which no longer function.

Careful watch is also kept on as many as possible of the tens of thousands of pieces of space junk/debris as these could pose a threat to live satellites and also for warning when larger debris is going to re-enter the atmosphere.

On a clear night, any short spell of sky watching will enable you to see several of these satellites passing overhead. If you have the right app, you can easily identify them.

There are a number of independent bits of software for you to identify track etc as many satellites as you want, for example

Similarly images of ISS crossing the moon - here is just one, but a very nice one, taken not by NASA or any science organisation, just an independent photographer called Dylan O'Donnell


You could do it too.

If it did not exist - how is any of this this possible?

Now I don't want to derail the subject here, just making an observation.

Anyone who holds a radically different view about something like the Earth's shape has to then squeeze and bend more and more associated things to fit the idea, rather than drop an idea based on overwhelming evidence. What I see on this thread is one of those things.

If you don't believe the Earth is a globe then you need to have other ideas about obvious things. Satellites, Gravity, Astronauts, GPS, Relativity, Mathematics, Climate, astrophysics, Stars, planets, Aircraft, communications. Then you have to find out a reason why Governments, corporations, universities, hobbyists, explorers, scientists, (A lot of which are not overly friendly with each other) and the general public are deliberately hiding the truth. Then you have to formulate a reason why they would do it.

It must be exhausting.

This is how I see it at least, and I'm sure they truly believe what they say.

What really interests me is why they have the core belief in the first place? Whatever drives it must be strong and underpin their whole world view. The only thing I can think of is a religious reason. Although, it is a fairly modern phenomena, contrary to the popular belief that religion always thought the earth was flat, which isn't strictly true. At least, not to the levels people think.

Anyway, sorry for the slight derailment.