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Yes, circular flight routes. Stops planes hitting each other.

Quote from: user99 on February 25, 2009, 04:20:25 AM

Yes, circular flight routes. Stops planes hitting each other.

More because it is the shortest distance between two points on a sphere.  If you project a great circle on a flat projection and then put it on our map it becomes a straight line.

Quote from: Testthis on February 24, 2009, 06:42:44 PM

The problem here is that people justify their zealous beliefs to ridiculous lengths, trying to satisfy themselves.  Admitting you're wrong is very difficult, especially when you build your life around a concept.  I'm a born again atheist as of six months ago, and I'll be twenty-seven in a month.  I was literally crying, scared at my realization.  But when I got over it, I started to study the theories behind the big bang, evolution, abiogenesis, etc...  And I found them fascinating, and even comforting.

Admitting when you're wrong is difficult, but it comes with a certain sort of bliss.

That's great. I suggest you to peruse the Flat Earth Literature when you want start crying scared in realization again

No need.

http://www.antarcticaflights.com.au/faqs.html

It was a fun trip.

Quote from: Testthis on February 25, 2009, 10:16:08 AM

No need.

http://www.antarcticaflights.com.au/faqs.html

It was a fun trip.

What does that short flight a sort distance along the ice wall prove about anything?

That, despite the belief that no one is allowed close to the "ice wall", people are able to get close to the ice wall.

I'm still interested on your theory on the first point.  Travelling from Chile to Australia should take much, much longer than it does to travel from California to Japan.  But it doesn't.  A simple counter could be that our maps aren't accurate, but that would simply mean that the trips the opposite way should be even MORE skewed, but they aren't.

When did I say that I believed that? I've always said that plenty of people have been to the coast of Antarctica.

The RE counterpart to the 150 foot Ice Wall described in the FAQ is called the Ross Ice Shelf.

Or, the southern suggested route:  Chile to South Africa.  South Africa to Australia

And I've flown both ways on the northern path.  From Illinois to NY, then to Germany.  On the trip back, we were able to find a cheaper flight that was a connector through China.

Now, quite obviously, on the FE model, the southern trip should take roughly three times as long (I haven't done the math, so this is an estimate) as the northern trip would.  If it doesn't, we have a glaring issue.

It doesn't.  You have a glaring issue.

Those trips aren't circumnavigating the earth, or taking the "long way" between South America and Australia. They're all passing over a shared path.

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Or, the southern suggested route:  Chile to South Africa.  South Africa to Australia

Those trips aren't circumnavigating the earth, or taking the "long way" between South America and Australia. They're all passing over a shared path.

Quote from: Testthis on February 25, 2009, 03:37:59 PM

And I've flown both ways on the northern path.  From Illinois to NY, then to Germany.  On the trip back, we were able to find a cheaper flight that was a connector through China.

Now, quite obviously, on the FE model, the southern trip should take roughly three times as long (I haven't done the math, so this is an estimate) as the northern trip would.  If it doesn't, we have a glaring issue.

It doesn't.  You have a glaring issue.

China isn't in the Southern Hemisphere.

And I've flown both ways on the northern path.  From Illinois to NY, then to Germany.  On the trip back, we were able to find a cheaper flight that was a connector through China.

Have you checked out how a compass works in FET? it might help you understand this.

I guess I should have just stuck with my original assumption that all of the so called "FET's" here realized they were all full of hot air from the get go.

Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.

I could pretend I'm one.  I think I pretty much have their argument down.