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.
Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
guys don’t make fun of americans, they are special
dumbass@leminal.space 1 month ago
Are we talking the modern use of special, or the old use of special? Because they sure aren’t the first one.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Saleh@feddit.org 1 month 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?”
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just jump really high.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 1 month 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?
Skua@kbin.earth 1 month 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
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Because Trump is going to give Alaska to Putin.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Alaska was actually also ‘given’ to USA just like Crimea was.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This isn’t even the stupidest person in America
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
But you posted this.
m3t00@piefed.world 1 month ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Flat earthers: sweating
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah, this is dumb even by their standards. They think the North Pole is in the center of the disc.