Quote (card_sultan @ Oct 26 2016 09:39am)
How does ball earth explain flights paths that only make sense on a flat earth?
I'm sure you thought you were being clever, but you weren't. You're actually identifying why you're wrong, and presenting the same question I am, just without answering it yourself (incapable or unwilling?).
In this scenario we have some givens, mainly the amount of time each flight takes in reality, confirmed by millions of passengers who have watches on them.
So given those are constants, what we'd see on the flat earth would be each flight flying a different speed in order to travel differing distances over the same time. Given the direction and how the flat earth model lays out some known 12 hour flights would be considerably longer in distance than others. So in that scenario the only way that math makes sense is if every pilot, from every company, from every country, with as many differences as any large group of people, are all in on the conspiracy of "cruising speed" not actually existing. As in that scenario they would need to set their cruising speed based on the "actual" distance of the flight and orientation, to mask the flight as happening on a round earth.
Whereas on a round earth, given the same constants, all of the planes fly at generally the same cruising speed and reach their destinations at the time they should based on the math of a round earth.
feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about anything in here, anyone. cough russian cough
This post was edited by thesnipa on Oct 26 2016 10:12am