Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Flat earthers: sweating

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  • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, this is dumb even by their standards. They think the North Pole is in the center of the disc.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’ve got to look at a more-accurate map projection like pilots and ship captains do. This one makes it more obvious, it’s just easier to get momentum and roll into Alaska due to the strange facts of geography.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  guys don’t make fun of americans, they are special

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  • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we talking the modern use of special, or the old use of special? Because they sure aren’t the first one.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just checked a globe. Moscow to Anchorage goes pretty much exactly through Murmansk and the North Pole. Surprisingly similar distance as DC to Anchorage, slightly longer.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flying straight over the arctic is a great idea (for Putin and Trump only).

    I once had a flat-earther use this as an argument that the earth must be flat. “if the earth was round, why don’t they fly over the arctic?”

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• workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They forget that the Earth is spinning east to west so the planes don’t really need to go anywhere, they just need to hover and wait for the Earth to spin enough.

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just jump really high.

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    first - LOL. Second - there are so many really dumb people out there you could say that with a straight face and they would readily nod in agreement.

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• OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know the flight path, but it may be easier to cross the ocean going West from Moscow or St Petersburg than going over Siberia with the wild fires and volcanic activity in Vladistock area?

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  • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The shortest distance between Moscow and anywhere in the US is actually just to go straight over the north pole, which is of course not particularly intuitive when looking at a flat map. Since that's the case, the farther south in the US you are aiming for, the longer it takes

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because Trump is going to give Alaska to Putin.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alaska was actually also ‘given’ to USA just like Crimea was.

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This isn’t even the stupidest person in America

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But you posted this.

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• m3t00@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3d weather map

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