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Here is a fantastic visual animation of air traffic around the US.
Russ Roberts writes:
I recently encouraged you to check out this site as a beautiful example of spontaneous order. What you'll see is a visual representation of air traffic in the United States over the course of the day, using FAA data. It's really magnificent.
Each flight is represented as an animated path of light between the departure city and the destination city. The visual image that results is an illuminated map of the United States. The borders of the country emerge and then cities even though no boundary or city is shown explicitly.
The flights around the country aren't random. They spring out of population density and the routes people want to travel. These are the source of the order and its visual representation. What you're seeing is a visual representation of the market for air travel and its service of its customers.
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