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_wolfr...
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.
Also, you can use that same idea to cheat at Scrabble (or any variant), though I would never condone such a thing ;)
grep me$ /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 1699
That's awesome!
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_wolfr...