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And what they found was... nothing? This is a strange article, you keep thinking they are going to tell you something interesting. And then they don't. For exam
by jgrahamc 11y ago
And what they found was... nothing? This is a strange article, you keep thinking they are going to tell you something interesting. And then they don't. For example, they have a map showing that helicopters took the same routes: it's almost as if people are flying to and from the same airports and there's some sort of plan in place for where they fly. Who knew?
Chartering a helicopter flight from Zürich to Davos can cost as much as $10,000. We built our helicopter-tracking rig for under $200.
Is that supposed to be some weird juxtaposition?
Almost feels like this entire article is a justification for them being able to expense the cost of building an ADS-B set up.
- koliber 11y agoThe InterContinental hotel at which many attendees were staying cost $56 million to build. We bought our lunch for $8.
- nashashmi 11y agoI thought about submitting this article to HN, but I thought it would a waste of everyone's time. There was no "point" of the article. Except for maybe that helicopters are used in Davos.
- brudgers 11y agoI found the story about collecting the data intellectually interesting. [1] That there isn't some earth shattering pseudo-analysis for the sake of link bait is okbyme. Maybe something will pop out of the data or maybe I can simply use it to confirm my own beliefs. Anyway, it reminds me of hacking for the sake of hacking [1] and I appreciate the attention given to the write up: line drawings of helicopters rather than Medium style meme GIF's. YMMV [1] [1]: Admittedly, that may be a greater reflection of the low quality of my intellect than the high quality of the article.