Maybe they can use an Azimuthal Equidistant Map like the UN flag and the Gleason map to make it make sense.
Cognitive dissonance. Santa Claus (a ball globe) IS real!
Cognitive dissonance. Santa Claus (a ball globe) IS real!
They are sneaking behind Greenland to avoid Greenland air defense.
Gravity actually bends space itself which is how the Universe managed to smile at us.
Great circle route is shortest distance between two points on a ball. If memory serves me right
They fly great circle routes. The author of this article, and the TikTok folks, are blithering idiots.
How do you expect to make it the world’s longest flight if you fly in a straight line?
People are getting seriously stupid.
Last summer I flew from JFK to Seoul non-stop. The flight display showed at one point that we were over Alaska.
Earth is not flat
They must have taken globes out of 4th grade classrooms.
Thats the only explanation for this being a question.
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.
For the same reason nuclear bombers and ballistic missiles fly over the Arctic to get to their targets.
THe “polar route is standard for flights to asia.
Use the rotation of the earth to their advantage.
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.
Because the world is round and that doesn’t come across on maps. If you were to do this on a globe with a string, it would make much more sense.
Part of my time in Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club (USCG) was spent at the AMVER (Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue) Center, where the world-wide merchant vessel plot is maintained and updated. Basically the USCG would receive reports (position, course, speed, dest, etc) at least 1x daily from all the merchant vessels currently underway anywhere in the world. Sometimes these reports would include the designation “GC”, indicated the ship was sailing a Great Circle route.
So, my dear Tik Tok morons, not only do airplanes do this, but all those boats hauling all that crap you buy from China do this as well. If you can’t wrap your head around the fact that the earth is round, then maybe just trust those folks who have to buy diesel and jet fuel by the millions of gallons, who know how to burn it more efficiently than you.
FRegards,
H-T
It’s downhill that way.
If you turn the map upside down it all makes sense.