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I thought you guy's said the Earth was round. Why isn't

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I thought you guy's said the Earth was round. Why isn't this pilot taking the shortest route?
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>>8244056
Because he doesn't want to
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don't you know all pilots and airlines are a part of the conspiracy too ?
jeez anon ur'e so naive x3
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There's a war going on outside no man is safe from.
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cuz hes a hipster
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>>8244056
1) look at it on a globe
2) finding favorable winds
3) avoiding bad weather
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>>8244056
Behold!
The Great Shitpost returns.
The shortest distance between two points on a sphere is an arc of a Great Circle.
Navigation 101

Thank you
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>>8244056
It's a combination of wind conditions, weather, ETOPS allowances, and general traffic routing.
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>>8244056
>Mercator
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>>8244062

The thing about a flat earth conspiracy is, when you add it up, just about everybody has to be in on it.

Including all of those thousands of soldiers who guard the antarctic ice wall, not one has said a peep.
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>>8244056
>not wanting to see the beautiful wastes of Greenland
pleb
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>>8244173
No, it is basic geometry.
P. S. The Earth is still a sphere.
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>>8244285
I'm responding to how the pilot seems to be deviating from the actual great circle path.
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