@[email protected]cake to [email protected] • 9 months agoThe line war has begunlemmy.worldimagemessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1772arrow-down122
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish127•edit-29 months agoIt can get a few percent longer if sailing between Madagascar and the rest of Africa but Pakistan-Russia does not have the same ring to it, I guess. Edit: source (German), they also show the longest land route (across Eurasia of course)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•9 months agoThat’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish81•9 months agoI KNOW IT’S BASICALLY A CIRCLE IN 3D SPACE. There is an exact amount of pedantry at play here, and you’re going over.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•9 months agoWould you say that they… crossed the line?!?! 😏😏😏
minus-squareSippy Cuplinkfedilink6•9 months agoIn our space time frame of reference, we never change direction, we travel in a straight line. It’s a straight line.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-29 months agoAnd when Im walking, in my frame of refrence, the houses on the side of the road move behind me. Houses move.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•9 months agoBut following the surface of a sphere causes you to constantly change direction
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•9 months agoDude that’s awesome. How did you make these images??
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoI didn’t, it’s from a spiegel.de article
It can get a few percent longer if sailing between Madagascar and the rest of Africa but Pakistan-Russia does not have the same ring to it, I guess.
Edit: source (German), they also show the longest land route (across Eurasia of course)
That’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊
I KNOW IT’S BASICALLY A CIRCLE IN 3D SPACE. There is an exact amount of pedantry at play here, and you’re going over.
Would you say that they… crossed the line?!?! 😏😏😏
In our space time frame of reference, we never change direction, we travel in a straight line. It’s a straight line.
And when Im walking, in my frame of refrence, the houses on the side of the road move behind me. Houses move.
But following the surface of a sphere causes you to constantly change direction
Would straight plane be as understandable?
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Correct! Technically :P
Dude that’s awesome. How did you make these images??
I didn’t, it’s from a spiegel.de article