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.

[philman_36]

Einstein later referred to this realization, which struck him in 1911, as his happiest thought. It was this idea that would lead him, after four years of further development, to publish the General theory of Relativity.

Hurray! I saved my own arse with a THEORY/thought, not proof!

[philman_36]

Read up a few replies.

[Chickensoup]

Is this true? Or a joke?

[Chickensoup]

I just looked it up. It was posted as a joke

[philman_36]

So what? I can stop matter! I drop an apple on a block of ice.

Voila! I stopped matter. No theory, or gravity, needed there.

[HandyDandy]

Read on to the final paragraph:
“On May 29, 2019, humanity will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the confirmation of General Relativity, and 100 years of gravity bending light. Though many had their doubts on that day, Einstein wasn't one of them. As long as falling objects accelerate due to gravity, we have every reason to believe that gravity bends light, too.”

[philman_36]

I just looked it up. It was posted as a joke

All of the comments about that meme and you're the only person to bother finding the truth.

Well done.

[philman_36]

On May 29, 2019, humanity will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the confirmation of General Relativity, and 100 years of gravity bending light.

Show me then! Show me light being bent by gravity. A table top experiment one can do themselves to prove the theory.

SURELY there must be something to show it happening.

[philman_36]

...we have every reason to believe that gravity bends light, too.

Belief is not science.

[HandyDandy]

See post #213.

[philman_36]

A faulty premise...As long as falling objects accelerate due to gravity... (gravity being another "theory")
leads to faulty conclusions...we have every reason to believe that gravity bends light, too.
and it's why belief, not knowledge, must enter the picture.

[philman_36]

See post #213.
Ok.

As long as falling objects accelerate due to gravity...

Those lights are stationary, not accelerating as they fall...according to your side's POV.

[philman_36]

So the light isn’t bending.

[HandyDandy]

Then why are you seeing lights below where they’re supposed to be in post 213?

[philman_36]

Then why are you seeing lights below where they’re supposed to be in post 213?

BECAUSE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

And the truth is being rubbed in your face every day!

[philman_36]

Why would the UN choose that map?

Extraordinarily rare 1892 flat Earth map by Alexander Gleason

[philman_36]

The Flammarion engraving (1888) depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption underneath the engraving translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."

This thing has been going on longer than many realize.

[philman_36]

One more bridge shot...

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from State Highway 124
SE from the earlier I-10/Hwy 73 junction.

Marsh grass, very few trees to block the view.

[philman_36]

Dont let them take your mind

Don't let 'em tell to you that you are not divine.

[philman_36]

Your books opened my eyes to some things, perhaps this video can open your eyes to some things too.

This guy got out and LOOKED for himself.
WABASSO CAUSEWAY TO MICCO FL - 3 minutes of your time.
You could go look for yourself it's so close.