@[email protected] to [email protected] • 30 days agoThe line war has begunlemmy.worldimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1770arrow-down122
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish127•edit-228 days agoIt can get a few percent longer if sailing between Madagascar and the rest of Africa but Pakistan-Russia does not have the same ring to it, I guess. Edit: source (German), they also show the longest land route (across Eurasia of course)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•30 days agoThat’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish81•30 days agoI KNOW IT’S BASICALLY A CIRCLE IN 3D SPACE. There is an exact amount of pedantry at play here, and you’re going over.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•29 days agoWould you say that they… crossed the line?!?! 😏😏😏
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•29 days agoIn our space time frame of reference, we never change direction, we travel in a straight line. It’s a straight line.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-228 days agoAnd when Im walking, in my frame of refrence, the houses on the side of the road move behind me. Houses move.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•30 days agoBut following the surface of a sphere causes you to constantly change direction
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•29 days agoDude that’s awesome. How did you make these images??
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•29 days agoI didn’t, it’s from a spiegel.de article
It can get a few percent longer if sailing between Madagascar and the rest of Africa but Pakistan-Russia does not have the same ring to it, I guess.
Edit: source (German), they also show the longest land route (across Eurasia of course)
That’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊
I KNOW IT’S BASICALLY A CIRCLE IN 3D SPACE. There is an exact amount of pedantry at play here, and you’re going over.
Would you say that they… crossed the line?!?! 😏😏😏
In our space time frame of reference, we never change direction, we travel in a straight line. It’s a straight line.
And when Im walking, in my frame of refrence, the houses on the side of the road move behind me. Houses move.
But following the surface of a sphere causes you to constantly change direction
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Would straight plane be as understandable?
Correct! Technically :P
Dude that’s awesome. How did you make these images??
I didn’t, it’s from a spiegel.de article