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Everything about this writeup resonated with me until the last sentence, which made me think I deeply misunderstood the geometry of the spherical earth. 5 hour
by itp 9y ago
Everything about this writeup resonated with me until the last sentence, which made me think I deeply misunderstood the geometry of the spherical earth.
5 hours from the east coast of the US sounds right, but Seattle to Reykjavic is over 7 and closer to 8.
- jimmywanger 9y ago> 5 hours from the east coast of the US sounds right, but Seattle to Reykjavic is over 7 and closer to 8. Well, it takes about 5 hours to fly from Seattle to NYC. If it takes 5 hours to fly from NYC to Reykjavic, you shave 2 hours off because you don't have to stop and you're following the great arc. Did you think that tacking on an extra ~3000 miles of naive travel distance would only take 2 hours?