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There's a longer land path that starts in or near Senegal and ends in China. But they miss it because it goes near the Dead Sea, and they treat anything below sea level as water.
I guess my biggest surprise is that there is a straight line through the Beagle straight.
But what would flat-earthers consider the longest possible paths to be? Not the ones shown in the article, presumably?
But what would flat-earthers consider the longest possible paths to be? Not the ones shown in the article, presumably?
Over water, probably something like the entire 60th parallel south. Over land, I think you want to start near the westernmost point of the African continent and thread the needle of the Isthmus of Suez, and stay south of the Caspian Sea. At least in the projection gcmap.com uses (plate carree - essentially the x-coordinate and y-coordinate are just raw longitude and latitude), this keeps you south of Lake Baikal and…
I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka:
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There's a longer land path that starts in or near Senegal and ends in China. But they miss it because it goes near the Dead Sea, and they treat anything below sea level as water.
It seems like that path crosses the Suez canal. I think it's fair that bridges and/or tunnels don't count.
If it is undrivable in a straight line, why does that count? I’d assume the longest you could drive in a perfectly straight line would either be the longest straight highway or some drivable desert.
Use your feet, car centric person.
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Over water, probably something like the entire 60th parallel south. Over land, I think you want to start near the westernmost point of the African continent and thread the needle of the Isthmus of Suez, and stay south of the Caspian Sea. At least in the projection gcmap.com uses (plate carree - essentially the x-coordinate and y-coordinate are just raw longitude and latitude), this keeps you south of Lake Baikal and…
Flat earthers don't use Mercator projection, they use polar azimuthal equidistant (AEQD) projection centered in the north pole. I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka: https://i.ibb.co/9mqz8fvb/image.png
