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To: Mount Athos
Great circle is a straight line

It's an arc ... shortest distance over the surface of a sphere. A straight line would go through Earth.

10 posted on 11/12/2022 1:05:27 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

It would go into space. The rate the earth curved downward is 8” to the mile.


14 posted on 11/12/2022 1:13:24 AM PST by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: NorthMountain

Exactly.


93 posted on 11/12/2022 4:58:52 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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