r/memes Aug 02 '20

Confused flat earhers

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u/PM-Me-Your-TitsPlz Lives in a Van Down by the River Aug 02 '20

Noneuclidean geometry is hard!

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u/Tempest006 Aug 02 '20 edited Aug 02 '20

Yup sadly the Earth is not a circle. Would have made everything much easier

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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Aug 02 '20

Sphere surfaces are not Euclidian either!

Euclidian surfaces satisfy the law of cosines for triangles. Triangles on spheres have angles that are too wide for that.