How to know that the Apocalypse has begun: billionaire jets taking off en masse

A Los Angeles programmer and artist has created a website that allows you to track the flight plans of billionaires’ jets, and identify the moment when the world’s richest men begin to flee en masse — a sign of the end times.

Os billionaires are not like us. They benefit from special tax exemptions to protect their fortunes, operate private information networks and increasingly have direct access to the White House — when they are not there anymore.

Taking into account the increasing control they exercise over the mechanisms of political power, it is likely, in short, that the world’s richest will receive in advance news of an event capable of threatening civilization.

Kyle McDonaldprogrammer and artist from Los Angeles, developed a new system of jet tracking precisely with this logic in mind, says .

Called (Apocalypse Early Warning System), the site — developed by creative intuition — aims to warn of an impending catastrophe based on the number of private jets that are in the air at any given time.

The technical operation is complex, but The concept itself is quite simple: the number of private jets in the air Is it unusual for that time?

If yes, it may indicate that the ultra-rich have advance knowledge of an emergency capable of destroying the worldand are rushing to their private refuges while there is still time.

Basically, AEWS was designed to map private aircraft signals across the world, then comparing them with the usual values. Based on the difference, assigns a score between 1 and 5, where 1 corresponds to a completely normal situation, and 5 indicates that the level of private jet activity is higher than that recorded over the previous year.

McDonald points out that the score is not a guarantee of apocalypse, but that “it should be read in conjunction with other public signs.” A level 5 can be triggered by holidays or major political events, for example, so it is important to analyze the data in context.

McDonald said that the tool has already mapped some tsurprising endings.

For example, the highest peak in AEWS occurred on April 6the day Irão launched a massive bombardment offensive against US and Israeli targets, in retaliation for previous attacks. “That scared me. I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, it’s really serious‘” McDonald recalls.

The activist-programmer also worked on other public information tools that helped reveal hidden useful facts under mountains of scattered data.

An app he worked on with friends, aimed at tracking the Los Angeles Police Department’s notoriously aggressive choppers, helped him discover that the L.A.P.D. frequently deactivated or manipulated signals transponder to avoid detection by the public.

To what extent will the information actually be useful? If a catastrophe occurs, no one knows. In fact, if suddenly all the billionaires untie and take flight, it will only be a sign that we will have a few hours to live.

But until then, it will be fascinating to see whether the programmer identifies more trends in the flight data as the regional wars and catastrophes Climate change continues to shake the world.