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I didn't know that Alpha can tell you what planes are currently visible overhead, holy crap, that's awesome! http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes%20abov
by Jun8 15y ago
I didn't know that Alpha can tell you what planes are currently visible overhead, holy crap, that's awesome!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes%20above http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes%20above
Ran the query and looked at the sky like an idiot, only birds! And it's pretty clear today, too. Can the flight schedules be that off?
Also learned how many calories a cubic light-year of milk chocolate is: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfram_mathematica_nks_wolframalpha/c3xxxyz http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfr...
- DavidChouinard 15y agoIt can also do "satellites above": http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sattelites+above http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sattelites+above Make sure you enable interactivity (if you have Pro) on that last graph, it's pretty amazing.
- larrywright 15y agoYou can do the same thing for satellites and stars (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead) You can answer a lot of cool questions with Alpha. Nutritional information for 1/2 an avacado? It can do that. Number of kilobytes in a petabyte? Yup. Overall, very cool tool.
- libraryatnight 15y agoI use it occasionally for word finding, like a friend who wanted a clever .me domain I pointed to: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=words+ending+in+me http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=words+ending+in+me Also, you can use that same idea to cheat at Scrabble (or any variant), though I would never condone such a thing ;)
- samstave 15y agoJesus, that needs to be a mobile app "Whats above [x] Planes, [x] Satellites [ ] Stars" That's awesome!
- BigTigger 15y agoThey exist for the iPhone, not sure about Android