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Of course it's not a perfectly straight line, because the earth is a curved object. Perfectly straight puts you in outer space.
by davidw 2y ago
Of course it's not a perfectly straight line, because the earth is a curved object. Perfectly straight puts you in outer space.
- mynameisvlad 2y agoThe article quite clearly says “in a straight line along the Earth’s surface.” Emphasis mine.
- happytoexplain 2y agoNow that is, in fact, a silly gotcha. It's a third abstraction, irrelevant to the topic of two dimensional navigation. It is abstracted away for both cartesian and global concepts, and nobody is realistically confused by its absence.