Interesting Websites.

[Esox]

This recent thread made me wonder what other sites like that are around the net.

The Deep Sea - https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/the-deep-sea.578468/

Does anyone know of or use any other interesting sites like that?

I use these two often:

Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24 - https://www.flightradar24.com/42.71,-77.93/5

Free AIS Ship Tracking of Marine Traffic - VesselFinder - https://www.vesselfinder.com/

Flight Radar lists every non military aircraft in the air, in real time, in the world.

Vessel Finder does the same for boats and ships.

If anyone uses any sites such as those, or whatever else one might find interesting, post them so we can all have a look. I for one am very curious and many I'm sure are difficult to find.

 

[TinyT]

Very interesting indeed. The deep sea one is fun. The Flight Radar is complicated. Even better! I'll look at it, and the vessel one, in more detail.

I found this recently.

100,000 Stars - https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

I haven't really looked at it properly yet but it has the names of lots of stars and galaxies, and locations I think.

This is much more down to earth, and probably quite well known. I use it quite a lot and I haven't even gotten a new bike yet. The gradient graph is nice.

cycle.travel | route-planner and maps - traffic-free & quiet roads - https://cycle.travel/

 

[Esox]

I knew someone had to have some!

The one about the stars reminds me of this.

Space Engine – the universe simulator - http://spaceengine.org/

 

[TinyT]

I knew someone had to have some!

The one about the stars reminds me of this.

Space Engine – the universe simulator - http://spaceengine.org/

Great! I knew about this website and program but put it to the back of my mind, mainly because when a download is required I ask myself if it will really be worth the effort of getting to know how to use it, whether it will work properly etc. This little video tutorial gives me a good idea that it is worth bothering with. Youtube is very good for this sort of thing, I find. There are many people out there generous with their knowledge, it really perplexes me when people criticise the internet as a waste of time or just being populated with non-experts. I like to learn as much as I can, as often as possible, it's the point of human life to me and the internet has helped me to do this in a way that can't be overestimated, often from the so called non-experts who turn out to be, infact, experts. Modern technology has opened up our access to information and the ability to communicate it like never before. It just requires curiosity, thought, critical judgement and an open mind. Easy. (if only, ha!) Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. It puts the idea of waste into perspective.

 

[Esox]

Great! I knew about this website and program but put it to the back of my mind, mainly because when a download is required I ask myself if it will really be worth the effort of getting to know how to use it, whether it will work properly etc. This little video tutorial gives me a good idea that it is worth bothering with. Youtube is very good for this sort of thing, I find. There are many people out there generous with their knowledge, it really perplexes me when people criticise the internet as a waste of time or just being populated with non-experts. I like to learn as much as I can, as often as possible, it's the point of human life to me and the internet has helped me to do this in a way that can't be overestimated, often from the so called non-experts who turn out to be, infact, experts. Modern technology has opened up our access to information and the ability to communicate it like never before. It just requires curiosity, thought, critical judgement and an open mind. Easy. (if only, ha!) Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. It puts the idea of waste into perspective.

Space Engine is very good and works really well without being a resource hog. It works smoothly and is very well detailed. It can take a while to learn how to fly and find all the pertinent information for anything you do find. I think there was even a website you could upload coordinates to for life found on planets or something, I cant remember. Much of it comes from star maps so its also fairly accurate to distance, constellations and other galaxies.

The way Google has changed in the last 10-15 years makes it much more difficult to find what you might be looking for. Even much of the surface web is difficult to find via Google these days. Less popular sites that dont host ad traffic or umpteem million hits a day, such as the relevant ones in this thread, are increasingly hard to come by.

This is another I use from time to time.

Which Planets Can You See Tonight? - https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/canada/toronto

@Ad Astra likely has a few sites BM'd similar to that one.

 

[2Vu5_T]

Radio garden.

 

[Pattorashu]

Not really a website, but it's super cool

Star Tracker - Mobile Sky Map - Apps on Google Play

Explore constellations, planets and stars with this night sky tracker & locator!

play.google.com

If i find it I'll let you know, but there was a super cool like, mechanical engineering? game a while back I stumbled on. You could control motors and build contraptions to get an object places. Super neat feet wet into basic mechanical and physics stuff.

 

[Esox]

Radio garden.

I'll get a lot of use from that site. Thanks for sharing it!

If i find it I'll let you know, but there was a super cool like, mechanical engineering? game a while back I stumbled on. You could control motors and build contraptions to get an object places. Super neat feet wet into basic mechanical and physics stuff.

Sounds interesting...