musterion
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Speaking of curvature, the flat earther should be able to prove the actual route taken was actually a straight line:
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-longest-straight-path-you-could-travel-on-w-1825725532
Excerpt:Back in 2012, a Reddit user posted a map claiming to show the longest straight line that could be traversed across the ocean without hitting land. Intrigued, a pair of computer scientists have developed an algorithm that corroborates the route, while also demonstrating the longest straight line that can be taken on land.
The researchers, Rohan Chabukswar from United Technologies Research Center Ireland, and Kushal Mukherjee from IBM Research India, created the algorithm in response to a map posted by reddit user user kepleronlyknows, who goes by Patrick Anderson in real life. His map showed a long, 20,000 mile route extending from Pakistan through the southern tips of Africa and South America and finally ending in an epic trans-Pacific journey to Siberia. On a traditional 2D map, the path looks nothing like a straight line; but remember, the Earth is a sphere.
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AMR
That makes several kinds of nonsense, but it wouldn't be a straight line on a flat earth either.
While we're on it, how does one go THROUGH the tips of two continents while traversing oceans "without hitting land"? I know, I know, nevermind.