Thread 2794784

Explain this shit.

>>2794784 (OP)
Flat Earthers BTFO

>>2794784 (OP)
"Hong Kong"

Planes don't actually fly from Point A to Point B, they actually jump.

>>2794784 (OP)
>flying over ruzzia
no thanks

>>2794784 (OP)
Pic is probably from ages ago since they still fly over Russia

You can still fly direct to HK but they'd take you the other direction

You can't even fly to Shanghai directly from any NY airport anymore which really pisses me off

>>2794784 (OP)
Why doesn't this apply to driving as well? All the roads are straight, shouldn't an arc be better?

>>2794784 (OP)
On a flat plane it makes no sense, but if you have a brain and know the Earth isn't flat this makes sense.
Its probably going to be able to avoid headwinds and just fly north to go from hong kong to jew york. This requires IQ higher than sand to be able to understand

>>2794784 (OP)

Planes have to stay within a certain range of an airport for emergency reasons. I'd imagine private jets wouldn't even fly direct like you're imagining.

Stupid fuck.

Guys, the issue isn't that the line is curved. The issue is that Hong Kong is marked on the wrong location.

Hong Kong is located in southern China. OP's image shows it as located in southern Thailand or possibly western Malaysia.

>>2795149
Holy moly did someone move hong kong and not tell anyone?

>>2794784 (OP)
ok but seriously i was shocked when i found out i could fly to tokyo from atlanta georgia without any stops. and that this was normal. i had never looked into or known much about travelling very far but i always assumed to get to japan from georgia would be 2 planes

We live in a crater

>>2794784 (OP)
the planet is round. its rounded. if you create a sphere with this it would flatten the line out, however it still goes north up into greenland because its safer for the plane in the event of an emergency landing.
>>2794799
TL:DR This ^

>>2794988
fucking retard

>>2794784 (OP)
You know this applies to sailing as well. You don't just do a straight shot

>>2794784 (OP)
I know this board is full of 80 dopes, but fkn hell this thread here takes the cake.

>>2794784 (OP)
>>2795149
>>2795156
This is the flight map for JFK->SIN aka the longest commercial flight currently offered at 15 hours one way.

>>2794784 (OP)
>believing the published flight maps
airlines justify overpriced tickets by tricking retards into thinking they are taking some long route like this.

>>2795457
>however it still goes north up into greenland because its safer for the plane in the event of an emergency landing.
retard

>>2796017
There are several military bases with very large runways in Greenland that are cleared of snow and ice year round.

>>2796017
Nope, it goes that way since it's shortest. Denver to Istanbul passes through the Arctic as well.

Portals

>>2794799
how so. If you take the flat earth and have the north pole as the center. The plane flies in a straight line over greenland to hongkong.

>>2794784 (OP)
>>2796637

>>2794912
Rent free

>>2796637
>what is a great circle

>>2794984
Cathay still flies over Russia, albeit Eastern Russia only (mainland airlines overly all of Russia).

Boston, Toronto and New York are all still great circle flights for Cathay. It's the American carriers that can't, so have to take the long way.

>>2794784 (OP)
why not just go the other way

>>2797021
unsafe, too much time flying over open sea xD

>>2796638
That one makes sense its straight the one in the OP is all bendy

>>2797883
>open sea
Bullshit, there's millions of islands with airstrips in the Pacific.

>>2796657
lol did you not get it?
its bendy because its a wrong unravelled round earth.
The bend correlates with the line I made. All cities being flown over are identical

>>2797021
because the earth is flat. look at mY post and try to draw your version my my map here
You would be flying in a curve
>>2796638

>>2798052
>because the earth is flat
dude you didn't just actually say that
like actually on purpose
did you?
please say you didn't

>>2798260
Every post that's ever made on 4chan has been made on purpose. Even if it's a joke, some grown-ass man actually made the effort to type it up and click "Submit." Nothing here happens by accident.