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Originally Posted by 79CamaroDiva
only if that straight line is in fact straight.. the earth hasn't been flat since the 1400s
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exactly. youre going around a curve. a circle. find a globe, basketball, anything big and round. take a string or something flexible and pull it tight between 2 distant points around the center of the globe. that is the distance you have to fly to get from A to B. while holding the two ends of the string, pull the middle of the string up, to make an arc. now look at all the slack you have in the string. THAT is the shorter distance you can fly from A to B. class will be ending in 5 minutes kids.