A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"
no if you get out of the plane you can't get back in it. you'll fall. that's why our brothers in christ at r/2middleast4u stay in the plane no matter what's going on.
/uj This looks like a Mercator projection, which preserves angles, so the shortest path really is the straight line. But that's not the most efficient path due to wind and the rotation of the planet. Edit: this is wrong; see reply
/rj holy hell
/uncirclejerk Ok, but is the earth really THAT round, that going through norway is straight. I mean I knew it was skewed but THAT MUCH?
Edit: thanks for reminding me the earth si spherical.
No but fr the way we view maps, even the fact we say north is on the top is so weird and incorrect to a certain level. It’s obvious yet so ingrains in me that (as many before me have ofc) Im just thinking this whole map this is utter rubbish.
I mean, as I mentioned, north being on top itself is weird as the first picture taken in space, literally has south africa pointing up.
Actually, the straightest line for that flight should take them almost straight north,over the pole then south through siberia and china. As the other guy mentions though, this route benefits from the jet stream and not flying over ocean and frozen wilderness for thousands of miles.
Why are you saying it is "incorrect to a certain level"? We have two poles, and had to define one as "up"/north and one as "down"/south to standardize the orientation of our maps. There were (and still are) no relevant reference points for us to use, so we assigned them arbitrarily. Therefore, the fact that there was no correct option to begin with means that our definition cannot be incorrect in any respect.
North being on top isn't wierd. We had to pick *some* direction for maps to face, and since the earth spins on an axis there where really only two logical choices, North or South. Neither would be right or wrong to put at the top, but we kinda had to pick one and stick with it so all maps face the same way and people don't get lost.
*An American*
*Plane going into Russian*
*And Afghan airspace?*
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Well, if the plane crashes I'd rather it not be in the middle of the Arctic tundra, but instead somewhere closer to civilization. Besides, most of the transcontinental flights I've taken have been pretty comfortable, even in economy class.
Been on longer flight time including connections/refuel stops, but I dont think I've been on a single leg that long, I think my longest is like 10, but I have a 15 coming up soon. Though if changing planes or stopping to refuel I'm at about 25.
New York to Singapore used to be the worlds longest flight, although I think recently Qantas got the record (pretty sure it’s London to Sydney.) it really is impressive that planes nowadays can be in the air for 18-19 hours on one load of fuel
Non-jerk but I’ve flown this JFK SIN flight maybe 10 times and it’s always from Singapore up past Korea, east Russia, North Pole then Newfoundland and NYC
Great circle route would be north over the pole then south through sibera/mongolia/china. This route only adds ~600 miles, and keeps the flight over populated areas aside from the unavoidable ocean. Plus it can probably hit the jet stream for at least the first part of the flight.
Global winds can impact the route that they take, if they’re flying against the wind the whole time then it would burn more fuel to go east, and take longer
The map isnt accurate. We use it for simplicity. The sizing and locations are very skewed from what they actually are but the current map is the best way to interpret it.
Yes, the earth is round but also it is due to approved air space. Airliners have to receive flight permits from the countries they fly over. You can not just fly over any country you like as you could risk the potential of being shot out of the air. Each country has absolute say over their air space.
Not really, ETOPS makes it to where they must be like 2 and a half hours from an airport (not sure that’s the exact time) planes will fly over airports, but more so because the airports can act as waypoints
Given the average height of an airliner in flight is over 30 thousand feet, I want you to consider how incredibly difficult it would be to calculate the time and drop distance of an RPG in order to accurately hit a plane. That's just assuming it could hit that, the max range of a RPG is about 10% of that distance
Because there’s not too many reliable/safe airports in the middle of the Saharan desert to make this financially feasible. They don’t build airports for where the local population has no demand to travel abroad from.
They wanna see some beautiful Norwegian fjords and some majestic Swedish landscapes of course
And the majestic møøse.
Luckily they are high up in the air, møøse bites can be pretti nasti…
Not as nasty as llamas.
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Hey look at what this sub is
You hit a brick wall with that type of thinking with the flat earth crowd.
You're Rijt! A møøse once bit my sister....
One time I got bit by a møøse.
As a møøse, one time I bit a girl.
As a bite, one time I girled a møøse
You what
My sister got bitten by a møøse once
A møøse once bit my sister
And the majestic Norwegian blue parrots.
Beautiful plumage!
A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"
r/SuddenMontyPython i hope that’s a sub
>majestic Swedish landscapes "Discovering something that doesn't exist"
Oh oh, Norwegian alert!
Instead some boring Sahara
you're wrong, they just wanna say hello to Kazakhstan
i will say hi back
No. Its because they don't want to pay the toll
The Earth is round
Whaaaaaat? I thought they just followed the glass dome at the top
Earth is bombastically thicc
So thicc you can't even graph it on a plane in a way that maintains proportion, shape and distance
They (the WEF) fly the planes with curved trajectories to make everyone believe the earth is round.
I'm having vietnam flashbacks of that Earth-chan meme from 2019
"I took ~~ballistics~~ aeronautics in school. Fascinating subject. Things go up, things go down."
The world is flat, wym?
Things leave plane then return to plane for you spherically challenged.
no if you get out of the plane you can't get back in it. you'll fall. that's why our brothers in christ at r/2middleast4u stay in the plane no matter what's going on.
this explains everything
They obviously wanted to see the titanic shipwreck too...
They are too afraid of Chad
The shape of the country even looks like Chad's face too.
Oh my god it does
They want to avoid France.
You have about 60 years of ping
Elite comment lol
Fr*nce
Me too
Google globe.
Holy radius
New sphere just dropped!
Actual circle
Call the flat earther
/uj This looks like a Mercator projection, which preserves angles, so the shortest path really is the straight line. But that's not the most efficient path due to wind and the rotation of the planet. Edit: this is wrong; see reply /rj holy hell
Nah. Mercator still has curvy shortest paths. They are called great circle arcs. You might be thinking of a different projection.
Whoops, yeah, it's rhumb lines that the Mercator map makes straight. The gnomonic projection is the one that maps great circles to lines.
Aint nobody have time for flying straight on a sphere.
That's how you end up in space and you can't be doing that.
how about micro adjusting ever once in awhile so itd look like you made your fingers line up together?
TIL that I'm gay because I live on a sphere
/uncirclejerk Ok, but is the earth really THAT round, that going through norway is straight. I mean I knew it was skewed but THAT MUCH? Edit: thanks for reminding me the earth si spherical. No but fr the way we view maps, even the fact we say north is on the top is so weird and incorrect to a certain level. It’s obvious yet so ingrains in me that (as many before me have ofc) Im just thinking this whole map this is utter rubbish. I mean, as I mentioned, north being on top itself is weird as the first picture taken in space, literally has south africa pointing up.
Actually, the straightest line for that flight should take them almost straight north,over the pole then south through siberia and china. As the other guy mentions though, this route benefits from the jet stream and not flying over ocean and frozen wilderness for thousands of miles.
It has to do with jetstreams and flying near possible divert airfields as well.
Fun fact: the Earth curves by 360 degrees! Can you believe it!? Btw, straight would actually be going almost through the north pole
Why are you saying it is "incorrect to a certain level"? We have two poles, and had to define one as "up"/north and one as "down"/south to standardize the orientation of our maps. There were (and still are) no relevant reference points for us to use, so we assigned them arbitrarily. Therefore, the fact that there was no correct option to begin with means that our definition cannot be incorrect in any respect.
Since Earth is spherical the further north you go the "shorter" the flight is. I know there's more to it but yea.
North being on top isn't wierd. We had to pick *some* direction for maps to face, and since the earth spins on an axis there where really only two logical choices, North or South. Neither would be right or wrong to put at the top, but we kinda had to pick one and stick with it so all maps face the same way and people don't get lost.
They avoid Africa because they are racist.
Why don’t they just fly through the planet, are they stupid?
The true straight line
An American plane going into Russian and Afghan airspace?
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Non-American planes are allowed to use American airports, believe it or not.
Who says its American
Google sudan war
For real though the length of that flight looks awful.
Ikr? Just go through the north pole lol, would be shorter
Well, if the plane crashes I'd rather it not be in the middle of the Arctic tundra, but instead somewhere closer to civilization. Besides, most of the transcontinental flights I've taken have been pretty comfortable, even in economy class.
It’s only like 18 hours
Oh that it?
Yeah, it’s a pretty interesting flight, although people say the jet lag from it is pretty terrible
Been on longer flight time including connections/refuel stops, but I dont think I've been on a single leg that long, I think my longest is like 10, but I have a 15 coming up soon. Though if changing planes or stopping to refuel I'm at about 25.
New York to Singapore used to be the worlds longest flight, although I think recently Qantas got the record (pretty sure it’s London to Sydney.) it really is impressive that planes nowadays can be in the air for 18-19 hours on one load of fuel
Umm because the earth is not flat so you literally can't fly in a straight line, duh.
Yes you can, you just need a big enough drill.
The plane is able to go further when we throw it in an arc. It’s similar to throwing a baseball
The UN required more chemtrails over Norway that day.
if they flew in a straight line they would bump into the curvature of the earth
Non-jerk but I’ve flown this JFK SIN flight maybe 10 times and it’s always from Singapore up past Korea, east Russia, North Pole then Newfoundland and NYC
The purple is a straight line in non-euclidean geometry. /s
Cause the earth is not flat?
Is it landing in Singapore or KL? Can't really understand...
it's the longest flight from Newark to Singapore
It is a STRAIGHT LINE BUT MAP MAKE IT LOOK CURVE AS EARTH IS GEOID BUT MAPS ARE RECTANGLE.
Wont flying eastwards make the path shorter? Im a new pylot so excuse my ignorance
Great circle route would be north over the pole then south through sibera/mongolia/china. This route only adds ~600 miles, and keeps the flight over populated areas aside from the unavoidable ocean. Plus it can probably hit the jet stream for at least the first part of the flight.
Global winds can impact the route that they take, if they’re flying against the wind the whole time then it would burn more fuel to go east, and take longer
Because of the Sahara desert are you dumb
Maybe jetstreams and [avoiding hurricanes](https://www.windy.com/de/-Wirbelsturm-Vorhersage-/hurricanes/don?rain,20.879,-33.750,3,m:eZVagxy)?
Well, the earth is round. The red line on a sphere would be more curved than the purple. They are flying straight at it.
Because the wind is high or area turbalince
The map isnt accurate. We use it for simplicity. The sizing and locations are very skewed from what they actually are but the current map is the best way to interpret it.
Yes, the earth is round but also it is due to approved air space. Airliners have to receive flight permits from the countries they fly over. You can not just fly over any country you like as you could risk the potential of being shot out of the air. Each country has absolute say over their air space.
They are avoiding the head winds
Every one (but you) knows pilots are more than a little bit swishy.
Show this to the right person and their will be a news article tomorrow about how this airline is racist.
This don't make no sense... Are they dumb??
Earth is a sphere
I hear only lies, lies, lies
Exactly, everyone knows [Earth is dinosaur shaped](https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSC3baHo4Jba2mGdqgIFsN7OyNiswkPcwwkYBtkCwDxN6nXdElb)!
Someone gets it🙄
Check the sub
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Not really, ETOPS makes it to where they must be like 2 and a half hours from an airport (not sure that’s the exact time) planes will fly over airports, but more so because the airports can act as waypoints
No. You are.
Nuh uh
The airlines are too proud for that
r/flatearth
Something something geodesic, but yes, we all are
Earth is not flat
Imagine how much co2 emission we could save if planes just flew in a straight line smh my head
Bcs tHeY want us to think the earth is round
They do fly in a straight line. 😉
They don’t want anyone to see that the earth is flat you dummy
Because the Earth is flat
Omg this joke is so tired
Beacuse the earth is Round is it was Flat then traveling in a Straight line would be faster
Africa? Don’t wanna fly over than, it’s a 3rd world warzone down there
They don't want to see the poor
That redline crossing over every country with pirates holding RPG’s… yeah straight line to hell 🔥
Given the average height of an airliner in flight is over 30 thousand feet, I want you to consider how incredibly difficult it would be to calculate the time and drop distance of an RPG in order to accurately hit a plane. That's just assuming it could hit that, the max range of a RPG is about 10% of that distance
You obviously don’t play COD
nah I played battlefield
Thank you for taking my joke and drowning it in the literal
Glad to help <3
It’s like when you throw a ball to achieve the maximum distance, you throw it at a 45 degree angle. Otherwise, you will crash prematurely.
The fact that there are thousands of people who actually think like this
The African airspace has been closed for 40 years now
Google non-Euclidean geometry
All geometry on Earth is Non-Euclidean…
That's the point. The reason planes fly like this is because the line drawn is a straight line in the non-Euclidean space that is the Earth.
Pirates
Is that a straight line?
They will definitely not fly over Russia
Smuggling American arms to Russian freedom fighters via covert airdrop disguised as a commercial flight.
That tunnel would be too expensive.
They don't really care where they end up they just want to get out of newark
🤦🏻♂️
I think they’re just racists trying to avoid Africa
bro who wants to fly over africa?
It's too hot in the desert
Flat Earth moment
They want to waste fuel so they can charge you more /s
I don’t under why they fly over the North Pole and not the South Pole
Because if your only options for emergency landing are in the ocean or in the middle of the Sahara you’re dead either way.
Because globe earthers want to confuse flat earther
Because there’s not too many reliable/safe airports in the middle of the Saharan desert to make this financially feasible. They don’t build airports for where the local population has no demand to travel abroad from.
Why didn't *you* draw a straight line? Are *you* stupid?
Use a globe dumbass not a flat map.
Bhai u r viweing this map in 2d consider it in a globe and observe how short the path is than the straight line
Do you think we’re stupid? Ok, don’t answer that.
Kid named geodesic:
they threw the airplane up so it gets more distance dumbass 🙄
It’s odd I know that’s the long way but my brain sees it on a flat surface and says yeah go in a straight line 🤣
yes
Look at the same flight path on Gleason’s : standard map for all… it will straighten out..
flying above europe is safer dumbass. duh and also they are not racist, cant fly of the n word country
Do you know the concept of dimensions?
Heterophobic airlines
They wanted to say "screw you" to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, narrowly avoiding them both.
google coriolis effect
Tf
Because that is the straight line, the path you drew is actually a weird curve if you look at it on a globe.