People are baffled why world's longest flight doesn't travel in a straight line

Virgin Radio UK ^ | 11-11-2022 | Virgin Radio

[Saije]

How's this for a detour? Over on TikTok people are losing their minds as to why the world's longest flight travels in an over-exaggerated curve and not in a straight line from New York City to Singapore.

Travelling at a whopping distance of 9,537 miles, people have had their brains twisted over its questionable logic.

TikTok user Travel With DJ documented the curved details of the world's longest non-stop commercial flight. The Singapore Airlines flight takes off from John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport and lands in Singapore Chani Airport.

Travelling from Singapore back to New York is thought to take 18 hours and 50 minutes, according to Upgraded Points.

[gitmo]

He’s not talking about a square mile. It’s 8” * miles * miles.

The example was 3 miles. 8” * 3 miles * 3 miles = 72”. Or 6 feet.

[Gay State Conservative]

IRRC there are flights between southern Africa,Australia and southern South America that fly over Antarctica. I’d love to be on such a flight during the southern summer when most,if not all,of the flight would be in daylight!

[Jonty30]

Yes, I understood from the example provided.

It was helpful. 🙂

[bert]

I had geography in the fourth grade and still have my notebook 70 years after the fact

[HereInTheHeartland]

They must have taken globes out of 4th grade classrooms.
Thats the only explanation for this being a question.

[gitmo]

LOL. I had the same thought.

[philman_36]

Maybe because the earth is spinning around every 24 earth hours?

Sure, fine, but the corresponding heat waves would STILL have to match the purported tilt of the Earth.

In fact, under the tilted Earth scheme the South Pole should be as equally inhabited by plants and animals when it's not.

How Do You Know the Earth is Round? George Orwell

It will be seen that my reasons for thinking that the earth is round are rather precarious ones. Yet this is an exceptionally elementary piece of information. On most other questions I should have to fall back on the expert much earlier, and would be less able to test his pronouncements. And much the greater part of our knowledge is at this level. It does not rest on reasoning or on experiment, but on authority. And how can it be otherwise, when the range of knowledge is so vast that the expert himself is an ignoramous as soon as he strays away from his own speciality? Most people, if asked to prove that the earth is round, would not even bother to produce the rather weak arguments I have outlined above. They would start off by saying that ‘everyone knows’ the earth to be round, and if pressed further, would become angry. In a way Shaw is right. This is a credulous age, and the burden of knowledge which we now have to carry is partly responsible.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Many on TicTok actually visualize the world as flat. Some may never have seen a globe, or if they did they cannot reconcile the globe and map.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

You made my day. That was hilarious.

Because = map.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

For the same reason nuclear bombers and ballistic missiles fly over the Arctic to get to their targets.

[philman_36]

1984 - Part 3, Chapter 3'What are the stars?' said O'Brien indifferently. 'They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'

Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken objection:

'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?'

GET BINOCULARS AND END THE LIES! TRUST YOUR OWN EYES!

That boat isn't over the horizon, it's simply past your eye's vanishing point!

Or are you too scared and too synched into your indoctrination to even try?

[eclecticEel]

It also looks a bit funky when plotted on a Mercator projection.

[Ouderkirk]

THe “polar route is standard for flights to asia.

Use the rotation of the earth to their advantage.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Doesn’t surprise me, tic-tic kids know nothing. Put any long route on a Mercator (flat) projection, and it looks curved. The joke is that the curve is correct, the Mercator projection is INCORRECT. The earth is a sphere.

[Celtic Conservative]

IIRC, all the trajectories for both Soviet and American nukes would’ve followed a similar course.

CC

[deport]

The rate the earth curved downward is 8” to the mile.

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Interesting. Age 82 I've never thought about that. I knew
it was a globe but had never about the curvature rate.

[sit-rep]

clear nights you can see a bit of landscape in the dark. but it’s pitch black as you say most flights. I really would like to get back to thailand to kite a few more times but since china closed its hubs for international transfers all flights now go thru the middle east and are 3 and 4 times more expensive. prior to covid I was gettin rnd trp out of Chicago to Phuket for $450.00 with 1 stop in shangai!! I sure miss trump!!

[sit-rep]

well on that route they dont have much choice!! lol... I reckon its the same for Fiji and Tahiti as well...

[sit-rep]

btt!!