Are you able to use it in reverse using historical data?

That is true

Tho, the total size of the data chunks will be a torture to the server machine

Now that you know that atmospheric conditions are chaotic, and that balloons have next to no steering capabilities, are you still convinced that China launched them so they can fly across the Pacific, through Canada, just so they fly visibly over precise sensitive locations in the US? Nobody is wasting money making spy balloons when satellites would’ve sufficed. It shouldn’t be hard to spot the military’s fear mongering.

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It would be cool to add a function to control the balloon's altitude. That would manage the chaos enough you could then add goals like trying to pass over as many target cities as possible in a single go around the earth.

I’m in IT, and I see things like this and really love the ingenuity and cleverness that goes into it.

I can’t go there yet so I’ll ask here.

Do you have a way to allow someone to mark a balloons position, altitude, and date/time and have it display an (ever-widening) range of locations where it may have been launched from?

Lol wut

Hi all! Thanks for all of your support, it really blew up!

The website is lagging right now and I am working on upgrading the serversThank you for your patience

Edit: the 2nd server is almost ready now! I will need to install the SSL cert which may cause the site to slightly break for a minute

Edit 2: both servers are fully up and running now! thanks for y'all's patience and support!

I see, a smol deviation in initial conditions can definitely cause a huge difference in outcome in chaotic systems like these

Indeed! most winds at 100hPa level blows eastwards

This is fun

Around the world in 15 days

This is very cool. I've launched two from China not too far apart and they took very different paths. I guess this is the jet stream.

Coincidentally, I'm listening to BBC World Service and there is a story on Spy Balloons as I played around!

to be fair, there is no way my code is precise or accurate enough for it to be anything other than a fun playing along website

I reckon CIA/US military/any other nation's military must have their own supercomputer running actual applicable simulations with high level data

Why are you making tools for China?

didn’t work on iPad

Cringe

I quite like this on the phone. A bit laggy. Also, dark mode for me plays with my eyes.

I like the feature that when zoomed out the text title becomes bigger, but I noticed this only applied to the first layer. When I zoom in to see a bit more, I feel that this needs to apply to the other boxes as well.

You’re onto something with this, but design needs changing and making it less resource intensive.

Unbuild it.

Came here to say the same. Pretty cool, minus having to zoom in on everything.

And it also doesnt look that good

I think it could be quite good, but needs a lot of improvements:

• Visual design is crap, really needs improvement
• Scrolling freely just doesn't work for this, it's annoying to do. Just make scrolling lock onto certain positions. For example, if I pinch to zoom out, don't just let it freely scroll out, take me to the higher view. If I scroll up, just take me to the previous section.

My popup blocker blocked the popup results.

The overall design looks dated, and the navigation is clumsy and a bit disorienting, and I don't see what the benefit of using it is.

Maybe use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. I could not use it as it is. Sorry.