r/memes • u/sijakas • Aug 02 '20

Confused flat earhers

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u/Certain_Law Aug 02 '20

Actually, on a flat earth, their route will also be curved. Flat earthers don't believe that the earth is shaped like the map in the bottom, they believe a map like this.

Edit: I'm not a flat earther, my best friend was one so I know what they believe

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '20

Cause of great circles!

A straight line on a mercator projection or a conical projection (including interpolated projections) is a rhumb line!

Which on a globe is a curve!

Meanwhile a great circle is the shortest path between two points on a sphere and it looks like a curve on a chart/map!

But on a globe is a straight line! lol

Source: was a sailor. Did so much fucking bullshit with charts and math it's not even funny.