for anybody wondering why airlines use curvy flight paths: it’s because most flight paths were made before AI
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I propose a new formula for calculating them:
flight path + AI
new_flight_path = length_of_flight - (AI * 2)
Just a little snippet of what can be done with ai....
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Fuck it's on my phone now, how do I delete it!? I'm so sorry I didn't mean to steal it I swear!!!
I have traced your internet IP protocol address back to your IP home address, using AI.
Expect a letter from my lawyer soon!
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What an idiot. It's an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again
Well the shortest path is a drilling submarine to go through two continents and the bottom of an ocean. Unfortunately it will take aproximately 87 years to get there this way.
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Surprised how many people don’t realize this is satire
The bar is too low, hard to tell now
Poe's law is in full force in this age of "AI".
If I had read his titles under the name I would have gotten it, but I've seen way to many Ai bros on linked in posting dumb shit like this and being serious.
Use this tool to make an azimuthal projection from your location. It's really trippy. It helps you better make sense of routes like these. https://ns6t.net/azimuth/
AI is also flat earth dummy then
No way this isn't a joke, right?
Every time I think that, I'm wrong. So at this point I'm just going to assume it's legit and be pleasantly surprised if proven otherwise.
Nope, it’s real, the hedge honcho himself is going to revolutionize the flight industry with these new Elelems. It’s the future, and he’s hedging it.
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So they're gonna build a tunnel through the earth the plane can fly through, to go in a straight line, right?
please be a joke
This reminds me of a Mad Magazine comic from the 1960s (or 70s I don't remember) that had a secret agent or someone like that use a computer to 'calculate the fastest route to his destination' and it drives him through every building in the city since that would be a straight line...
Some shit doesn't change.
This is so wrong. The fastest route is going west from LA to Paris, because that will make you go back in time. By the time you land in Paris, it's the previous day!!
When is the next all life on Earth killing asteroid collision again?
Sorry man, meteor said "Fuck that" when he saw us
damn. imagine being so underwhelming a planet killing asteroid bails on you? like holy shit are we fucked
Really shows the limits of AI. It’s orders of magnitude faster to go through the Earth.
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This is a joke from Cobra Kai
AI does not believe in the round Earth hoax. 🤷♀️
Surely we should have AI pilots by now.
It would make all flights much faster...
spoiler
... because the plane would crash well before reaching the destination.
But who will reinflate Otto if we get rid of the crew?
Can't wait for some tech bro to create self-flying planes that are actually just a terrible version of the current autopilot that claims autonomy but crashes half the planes.
Then they will blame air traffic controllers for the crashes for not adapting to the self flying planes or some other bullshit.
I'd be impressed if they created anything close to flying. My money is on them making "ground planes" and it's just a shittier train for the millionth time
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Just for reference: https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=LAX-CDG
Madrid to Auckland Vs Lisbon to Auckland is a fun one
Near-antipodal cities are all like that.
- Christchurch (New Zealand) — A Coruna (Spain)
- Madrid (Spain) — Weber (New Zealand)
- Wellington (New Zealand) — Alaejos (Spain)
- Hong Kong (China) — La Quiaca (Argentina)
- Nelson (New Zealand) — Mogadouro (Portugal)
- Whangarei (New Zealand) — Tangier (Morocco)
- Tauranga (New Zealand) — Jaen (Spain)
- Hamilton (New Zealand) — Cordoba (Spain)
- Junin (Argentina) — Lianyungang (China)
- Ulan Ude (Russia) — Puerto Natales (Chile)
- Masterton (New Zealand) — Segovia (Spain)
- Palembang (Indonesia) — Neiva (Colombia)
- Wuhai (China) — Valdivia (Chile)
- Padang (Indonesia) — Esmeraldas (Ecuador)
- Rafaela (Argentina) — Wuhu (China)
- Galvez (Argentina) — Nanjing (China)
A route with all mentioned NZ-Spain/Portugal cities with airports. The difference between flying over the North and South poles is just a few km so it's more important to pick a friendly airspace with good weather.
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I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this without showing them a globe lol.
I think you'd be surprised how many people can't comprehend this even with a globe
Pilot here. This man is a fucking idiot.
Normally I'd think this was satirical, but these days nothing surprises me.
This is clearly Ryanair, notice how they don't actually arrive at the correct destination?
anyone have contacts at Delta?
My dear brother in Christ, there's a reason that you don't
All you need is to dig a straight-line tunnel through Earth for the planes to fly through.
Elon is already on it.
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It took me a minute too long to realize that the white parts of the map were land and the grey ones were water.
I need my morning tea before I keep scrolling...
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I feel like this is one of the things AI would actually understand. Since it a problem which is solved very frequently. AI would get tripped up by creative thinking.
(Generative) AI wouldn't understand, because (generative) AI does not understand.
Wow!
With AI you can be just as wrong as you are without it, but also destroy the earth and be told you're a good boy by a souless mechanism... Yay
This is fucking awesome thanks for sharing
An AI was needed to draw a straight line? Like, map projection and curvature aside - he didn't do this himself with a map and pencil? Same revelation either way but this one was lazier.
He's joking about how stupid AI "solutions" and the people who stan them are.
It is amazing with how little of knowledge and intelligence one can get a CEO job.
Probably because the ones who hired him were even dumber...
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