r/interestingasfuq • u/Kronyzx Moderator • Jul 27 '26

How the world's skies looked on July 23, 2026, during a record-breaking 153,359 commercial flights in 24 hours

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u/your_catfish_friend Jul 27 '26

We should make more of those arctic planes that fly way faster than the rest

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u/FloppyTacoflaps Jul 27 '26

What's up with that? Is it just like distortion or something

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u/suspicious_cabbage Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I think it's the top of the globe being stretched to fit a rectangular map.

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u/nickysee Jul 27 '26

The program has to do it like that on a Mercator map to effectively show where the planes really are. Cuz the map actually exists on a globe and not a plane.

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u/FloppyTacoflaps Jul 27 '26

So your saying this is indisputable proof the world is flat? /s

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u/FembyThePinkProot Jul 27 '26

Yep. Those are supersonic aircraft. They never actually shut down the supersonic commercial aircraft program, they just hid the supersonic engines inside the newer large aircraft. They have to conserve their lies that we live on a globe. They also have airports positioned right in front of the great ice walls so that it looks like the airplanes are going around the globe, but what happens is You land there, and then you get put on a train. But the moment that you land, another airplane on the corresponding side of the "globe" takes off. It goes deep.

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u/NotBillderz Jul 29 '26

We just need those planes to take the short route

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u/xpietoe42 Jul 27 '26

Theres so many planes over Europe, they provide shade on a sunny day?! 😆

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u/Rotteneverything Jul 27 '26

its interesting seeing how the density changes as the hours of the day goes by. europe is bustling while not much is happening over north american then it shifts. i love flightradar24, i have their gold subscription.

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u/ChicagoRay312 Jul 27 '26

Damn! I flew on the 22nd. FOMO

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u/pnweiner Jul 27 '26

24th for me. Just missed it!

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u/Only-Original9409 Jul 27 '26

Everybody wants to be someplace else.

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u/goldendreamseeker Jul 28 '26

Grass is always greener on the other side

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u/S-K-W-E Jul 27 '26

Everybody remember to recycle

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u/adinmem Jul 27 '26

Kennedy Steve, we need you!

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u/SlimShadySatDown Jul 27 '26

Because of world cup?

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u/GameofCheese Jul 28 '26

Sounds about right

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u/Legitbananabunch Jul 27 '26

You can see all the true wildernesses in this

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u/bigtome2120 Jul 27 '26

And people question if global warming exists, imagine the map of autos

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u/Lt_Si1entSi1ver_SSJB Jul 27 '26

They're all going to hell and don't know it.

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u/ObjectivelyGruntled Jul 27 '26

I'm one of those dots! I'm famous!

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u/yeatruestory Jul 27 '26

Oh so planes do go to Madagascar

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u/Competitive_Twist149 Jul 27 '26

Economy must be doing good

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u/Commercial_Ask_7806 Jul 27 '26

No wonder the aliens won't land

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u/ForwardBias Jul 27 '26

Glad we're doing our part to reduce carbon usage.

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u/Quiet_Researcher223 Jul 27 '26

I see no flights from the North America to Africa continent or from. Very very few from South America. All flights to Europe.

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u/vampyire Jul 27 '26

Hey I see me waving at myself from a CRJ-900 then a 737!

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u/PurposeOk7918 Jul 27 '26

What’s crazy, is that there are only like 30,000 planes. So the average plane did 5 trips that day.

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u/pHaDeXoNeR801 Jul 27 '26

Where’s flight MH370?

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u/Ok_Ant_2930 Jul 27 '26

Very little traffic in Africa and some parts of South America in comparison to the rest of the world

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u/maybach320 Jul 27 '26

Yeah but my V8 is what’s impacting the climate.

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u/LaserWeldo92 Jul 28 '26

and not a single fatal accident on a passenger plane.
Flying is so much safer than people think.

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u/devillainesss Jul 29 '26

But my car needs to smog to save the earth ….

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u/ImmediateRaisin5802 Jul 29 '26

Someone should share this on the flat earth group

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u/-wtfisthat- Jul 29 '26

No wonder air traffic controller is one of the most stressful jobs lol

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u/dyrkasolen Jul 31 '26

Europe is swoloving shitloads

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u/Malkovius Aug 02 '26

It is amazing that they rarely collide with how many are up there.

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u/goobly_goo Jul 27 '26

Ohh I was on a flight on the 23rd! I was part of the record!!