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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
Is there a YouTube video or something that explains this argument or how did you come about it?
You don't need a youtube video. You are capable of visualizing in three dimensions. If you aren't, then draw paper cutouts of the continents, stick them on a dinner plate, a donut-shaped life ring, or whatever object is the shape you imagine the earth to be. Then get a string and measure the distance between various points on your conception of Earth. Put those distances into ratios. Then compare your ratios to ratios based on the known in-air travel times for commercial airliners between those same points.
It won't be an exact science because commercial airliners don't all travel at the exactly same speed and altitude, they don't travel in perfectly straight lines, and jet streams, etc. are real, but you get the idea. You can't get close to approximating the ratios of air travel times if you put those land masses on a dinner plate or a donut shaped object.
If you do the string test on a globe, the ratios will be much closer, albeit still affected by the factors I mentioned above.
Last edited by Rococo; 07-10-2023 at 01:56 PM.