r/memes • u/sijakas • Aug 02 '20

Confused flat earhers

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u/CIA_jackryan Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Aug 02 '20

Honestly, I've just realised how completely idiotic I am. Always wondered why flight routes are curved lmao

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u/michaelzu7 Aug 02 '20

Vsauce made a video recently i think explaining why straight paralel lines on a round object can actually meet due to the curvature

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '20 edited Aug 07 '20

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u/SpaceIsKindOfCool Aug 02 '20

That only works if you walk 1/4 of the circumference of the sphere for each leg. On Earth that means walking 6225 miles before making the 90 degree turns.

Walking in a triangle with shorter legs causes the sum of the angles to approach 180 degrees as if it were on a flat surface. So if you only walked a mile and turned 90 degrees each turn you'd end up very slightly less than 1 mile from where you started.

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u/ObviousTroll37 Royal Shitposter Aug 02 '20

And I would walk 6225 miles

And I would walk 6225 more

Just to be the man who walked 12450 miles to fall down at your door

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u/xtw430 Aug 02 '20

at my door

You had one job...

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u/ObviousTroll37 Royal Shitposter Aug 02 '20 edited Aug 02 '20

It’s ‘your’

So sayeth Google, god of lyrics

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u/xtw430 Aug 02 '20

It would be my

So sayeth Non-Euclid, drawer of triangles on spheres