Flat Earthers...
05-31-2017 | 07:25 PM
#71
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 6,248
Likes: 0
From: 767A (Ret)
What he is saying is that the calculations of latitude and longitude are plotted on a curved surface. The formulas needed to convert it to a flat grid, because the world is flat, are immense. It of course takes many years of schooling to learn all these calculations properly. Otherwise you would get lost. That is what he is saying
06-01-2017 | 04:02 AM
#74
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,199
Likes: 15
From: Petting Zoo
What he is saying is that the calculations of latitude and longitude are plotted on a curved surface. The formulas needed to convert it to a flat grid, because the world is flat, are immense. It of course takes many years of schooling to learn all these calculations properly. Otherwise you would get lost. That is what he is saying
Get off my lawn.
06-01-2017 | 06:20 PM
#78
:-)
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 7,339
Likes: 1
First we are chemtrailing, now we are hiding the fact the Earth is flat.....We are soon about to be burned for being witches here.
06-01-2017 | 07:18 PM
#79
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,215
Likes: 0
From: Capt
The Western Africans, thought the White people were devils who came from inside the Earth, because they would see the tops of their masts first, and then see the ships rise up out of the sea.
On a UAL flight a few years ago, there was a near-passenger mutiny. It was on an East Coast-Europe trans-Atlantic flight. One of the pax saw the routing on the IFE, and knew the pilot was lost, or someone had taken over the plane, because they weren't going straight East to Europe. Instead, they were flying North, towards Maine and Canada. The pax asked a FA about it, and didn't get a response that he liked. He ended up convincing a LOT of the passengers that something was very wrong in the cockpit. The Capt had to spend a good amount of time on the PA explaining flat maps vs. a globe, and how the shortest route looks like a curve on a flat map...
If everyone had Ms. Eagan, like I did, for Grade 7 and 8 Geography, this thread wouldn't exist.
On a UAL flight a few years ago, there was a near-passenger mutiny. It was on an East Coast-Europe trans-Atlantic flight. One of the pax saw the routing on the IFE, and knew the pilot was lost, or someone had taken over the plane, because they weren't going straight East to Europe. Instead, they were flying North, towards Maine and Canada. The pax asked a FA about it, and didn't get a response that he liked. He ended up convincing a LOT of the passengers that something was very wrong in the cockpit. The Capt had to spend a good amount of time on the PA explaining flat maps vs. a globe, and how the shortest route looks like a curve on a flat map...
If everyone had Ms. Eagan, like I did, for Grade 7 and 8 Geography, this thread wouldn't exist.
06-02-2017 | 06:34 AM
#80
Banned
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 4,208
Likes: 7
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
