Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it
Greg@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
To be fair, there is only one non-stop commercial flight between Australia and South America. I’m not a flat earther but pointing out this fact sure makes me feel like one 🤔
You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.
For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don’t go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?
Is there one that isn’t nonstop (excluding stopovers in New Zealand- not because it doesn’t count, but because I’m wondering whether there’s a place to stop between South America and Oceania)?
I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there’s not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand… and Antarctica if you’re a round Earth shill ;)
Weird how there’s a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile… two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.
kinsnik@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but that is already 1 too many for a flat earth