Sorry, they can't actually answer this one. Doesn't fit in with their conspiracy.
There was a thread a couple days back where someone pointed out that flights from Australia to Africa would be horribly long...
Tom himself posted something along the lines of "Oh, but how many direct flights do you see from Australia to Africa..."
When I pointed out there's at least 10 a day by multiple airlines and also almost 20 more from South America to Africa, all direct flights mind you, the thread just died.
I also participated in a thread where we discussed picking a random point on the globe, and flying in a straight line in any direction from that point. Our point was the flight times would be approximately the same no matter which direction you flew.
Well, instead of getting a response to that one we've gotten 3 days of some (retarted? dense?) forum mod that can't read the whole post and only posts things like "Oh, well how you know you're going straight." And "Oh, if you went straight east or west it works in FE..." rather than actually answering the question.