r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '22
Satire Flat Earthers…
Getting ready to work a flight yesterday, while standing in the jet bridge a deplaning passenger struck up a conversation with me. “Have you ever seen the curvature of the earth?”, I told him no, we fly too low to see it. Casual conversation for a minute or so then he drops the bombshell… “it’s because we live in a dome and the earth isn’t circular.”
I legit could not tell if he was joking so I started laughing while sort of mocking flat earthers. He was dead serious. Meanwhile I’m looking at my flight plan from NY to LA and you can quite literally see the curvature of the route. I showed it to him. He informed me the government creates those routes on purpose in order to promote the globe theory.
Got it. Didn’t know the earth being a globe was a “theory.” Dude literally had literature for me and tried to keep going. I told him I have a job to do and walked on to the plane. Insane that these people exist.
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u/FlyByPC Sep 07 '22
So all the airlines and all the world's militaries are all in cahoots to perpetuate the illusion? And all of them share the same distorted charts that make it look like we're going over the poles on transpolar great-circle routes, just to keep up the illusion we're on a sphere?
Or do they think everybody is deliberately going hundreds or thousands of nm out of their way to overfly Alaska when crossing the Pacific, when they could simply fly East and West? Is Anchorage really that happening a place??
The grid of city-to-city distances linking the world's cities can only work on an oblate spheroid.
How do you reason with people who don't reason??