The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: stevecanuck on November 22, 2020, 12:19:47 AM
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The round earth distance, the one used successfully by Air Canada to plot direction and distance, says 12,500 km. What is the flat earth distance?
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The round earth distance, the one used successfully by Air Canada to plot direction and distance, says 12,500 km. What is the flat earth distance?
If you take the "standard" map which is what most people think of (https://wiki.tfes.org/images/4/43/Map.png (https://wiki.tfes.org/images/4/43/Map.png) - a normal "Azimuthal Equidistance Polar Projection of the globe Earth) and blow that up to 2,500px wide using 1px to represent 10 miles, that gets you a nice scale size of the agreed diameter of the Flat Earth. If you draw a straight line as the crow flies from Vancouver to Sydney, you get an approximate distance of 14,100km. Even accounting for error in placing the line, that's still a huge discrepancy. Having said that, I don't believe that the map I used is the accepted one as there seem to be many, and none really agree. As I've mentioned before in posts though, it is physically impossible to take all of the accepted land masses, distances between places and put them on a flat plane whilst maintaining those same actual and relative dimensions and distances.