A strangely curt denial. Obviously the salient idea is that the intersection between spherical coordinates and two-dimensional coordinates creates two human int

A strangely curt denial. Obviously the salient idea is that the intersection between spherical coordinates and two-dimensional coordinates creates two human interpretations for the phrase "head East in a straight line from point X". A line can start East and be straight both locally and globally, or it can maintain East and be straight only locally and not globally. In the first, you hit Australia, and in the second, France. Neither are in the slightest "divorced from reality".