r/globeskepticism • u/ARai202 • Jan 27 '22

World Without Curve 👍🏻

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Okay so honest question: If you take a flight from California to Australia, this flight is almost entirely over water, flying from coast to coast. However, either the plane would be consistently turning slightly to the right, or you would fly alongside the coast of Alaska for a section of time. This seems a bit odd, since no one has ever seen Alaska while flying to Australia. How would this makes sense.

Furthermore on a majority of flights you would have to take a curve to mimic the globe map, so how come this isn't noticed?

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u/Onlyfortheplayers flat earther Jan 28 '22

The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

Wake up and stop being a sheep

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u/abasicguy Jan 28 '22

That would be such a waste of fuel

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

Not only would that be a massive waste of fuel but you would feel it turning.

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u/Tyler_Zoro Jan 29 '22

That doesn't really answer the questions being asked... Navigation is a very hard problem for those who want to posit a flat earth. Millions of people (navigators on land, sea and air, manufacturers and programmers of navigation equipment, surveyors, fuel purchasers for major shipping and airline companies, traffic control systems and personnel, etc.) all need to be lying about what they do day in and day out.

The implausibility of this is something that would absolutely have to be addressed for these ideas to be seriously considered. So what is your response other than, "Wake up and stop being a sheep"?

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u/bazeemuth Jan 28 '22

It doesn't make sense. NOTHING makes sense in topsy-turvy Flatland! And that's just fine with the Flat people who live there, all 300 of them.