• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    Why’d they go that way? They could have gone the other way and the line would have still been technically straight, but the route looks like it would have been shorter.

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      3 months ago

      Because going in that route would make it touch land which in the twitter post it says straight line without touching land

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      3 months ago

      The picture was about sailing the longest direct line.

      It’s not the longest anyway, but that’s what it was about. Technically one could sail infinitely many times around Antarctica in a straight line.

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          3 months ago

          Well, I stand corrected. I guess we’ll need to wait for the ice on the North pole to melt before we can make a more stupid voyage.

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          3 months ago

          It would, however, seem like a straight line to whoever was on the boat, because they’d be traveling due west the whole time, and the course corrections they’d have to make to keep going west would look the same as course corrections needed to account for wind, ocean currents, etc.