Just got a post in the Flat earth thread saying "you CAN take a trip to the south pole for this amount of money". My standing question for globers is why can't anybody circumnavigate the globe going south and then back up the other side, which would be north. People avoid the question because it can't be done. This was my response:
But you can't come back up the other side. It's simple, try and keep up. Go from the top of the ball to the bottom of the ball. You with me? Then come back up the OTHER SIDE. Nobody can do it in a plane, a jet, a boat, a ship, a nuclear powered submarine or a rocket or balloon nor any other mode of transport. No matter where you start on the globe if you go south and keep going south, you never stop going south. Why? Because the earth is Flat?
Because the earth is Flat?
There is no southernmost point at which you would start going back up north again. You cannot circumnavigate the globe by going south. You will keep going south to infinity.
This is just stupidity. Of course you could fly around the globe in any direction you wanted to, including north-south/south-north. In fact, satellites regularly do exactly that. Satellites, by the way, that you can see with your own eyes on nearly any clear night, shortly after sunset. There are apps that you can get that will tell you exactly which satellites are visible at any given time for any given point on the globe. The people in France can't see the satellites that I can at the same time and vise versa but we can each observe the exact same satellite at extremely accurately predicable times for as far into the future as you want to go.
The reason people don't fly over the south pole is because there is always a cheaper direction to fly to get from any populated area to any other populated area. The argument you make against Antarctica could be made for about 15,000 islands in the South Pacific. Do you deny such islands exist on the basis that no commercial flights travel over them (or mostly anywhere near them for that matter)? NO!
The fact is that there are whole vast areas of the globe that planes never fly over because most of the people who fly are flying to places that are not only habitable but heavily populated and it would be a waste of fuel, time and money to fly in directions other than as directly to the intended destination as it practicable.
How is it even possible to be stupid enough to entertain this flat-earth nonsense? It seems like your vital functions would stop working if your brain were so thoroughly impaired.
Clete