*folds world map in half
*sticks pencil through
You youngsters with your Einstein Rosen-bridges! Always in too much of a hurry to take the scenic route!
Low IQ: it’s not a straight line
Medium IQ: it’s a geodesic on a sphere, so it is a straight line
High IQ: it’s not a straight line
It can get a few percent longer if sailing between Madagascar and the rest of Africa but Pakistan-Russia does not have the same ring to it, I guess.
Edit: source (German), they also show the longest land route (across Eurasia of course)
That’s not a straight line, although it is possible to follow without changing direction😊
I KNOW IT’S BASICALLY A CIRCLE IN 3D SPACE. There is an exact amount of pedantry at play here, and you’re going over.
In our space time frame of reference, we never change direction, we travel in a straight line. It’s a straight line.
I didn’t, it’s from a spiegel.de article
Ridiculous. This line is clearly gay.
Today on the internet: Fun with spherical geometry.
