Now you can use your eye, a ruler or any instrument, but the results show that the red line is in no way less than 2.8 times shorter than the blue line. Observe the red and blue lines between real world places. To give an example of a common problem look at the image below Meaning, for Flat Earth Advocates this map is just an idea and not an accurate projection. When the issue of map inaccuracies come up the general answer from FE advocates is that our calculations from the UN type map is wrong, (or more correctly named the Azimuthal equidistant projection, more here > )įE claims that we dont actually know the positions of the continents relative to each other. I want to tackle this issue of not having a known map, and claim that we know exactly what the earth looks like and everything's location relative to each other is well known.īut first this is the map that Flat Earth proponents like to use as an idea of a flat earthĪnd this is what round earth proponents think the world looks like The minute someone tries to do distance calculations from a flat earth map and unsatisfactory results usually come up. The Flat Earth Map (FEM - from here on) as we all know does not exist to anyone's satisfaction. Early warning, this is a longish post so there is a TL DR at the end for those that struggle to read to the end of this sentence
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