Travel Time - Southern SA to South Africa vs. New York to Western Europe

On the disk map (of the flat earth), there seems to be a bit of a problem in that travel times between regions near the center (the north pole) should be significantly shorter than those along (or closer to) the perimeter (the ice wall). Thoughts?

On the disk map (of the flat earth), there seems to be a bit of a problem in that travel times between regions near the center (the north pole) should be significantly shorter than those along (or closer to) the perimeter (the ice wall). Thoughts?

No. Travel times would be the same. If you were travelling at 60mph, you would cover 60 miles in an hour, regardless of where you were on earth.

Thoughts?

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=36546.0

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=42574.0

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=47019.0

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=45821.0

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=44906.0

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Quote from: mightychef on June 02, 2011, 09:10:57 AM

On the disk map (of the flat earth), there seems to be a bit of a problem in that travel times between regions near the center (the north pole) should be significantly shorter than those along (or closer to) the perimeter (the ice wall). Thoughts?

No. Travel times would be the same. If you were travelling 60mph you would cover 60 miles in an hour regardless of where you were on earth.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's talking about travel time between two points on Earth (as in cities) who's relative positions (must) differ between the two Earth models.

I answered the question. Until the OP clarifies his question with a literate sentence, I think it would be churlish to speculate on his thoughts. He may well be satisfied with my initial response.

Thanks for being specific. I hadn't thought enough about it - I realize that I was being ambiguous. I did, in fact, intend to talk about the apparent differences in absolute distance between these routes in the alternative models.

I'll read up the other threads for the moment.