How come I can purchase a nonstop plane ticket from Sydney to Santiago in Chile? On the most common flat map, you'd have to cross or laterally pass EVERY single continent. Our jets A) wouldn't have enough fuel for that, B) can't travel fast enough to get there in 13 hours and 15 minutes, and C) We don't ever hear about people seeing land part of the way. I guess you could fly around the land, but that complicates the first two contingencies.
For those rare non-stop flights that do occur, it would not be surprising to find that aerial refueling is taking place, something of which the passengers would be totally unaware.
Nearly all flat earthers agree the earth is not a globe.
lackey, why do you keep posting stuff without providing any evidence?
What evidence do you have that people who book these flights are "typically" moved to a flight with a stop over
... or that any mid-air refueling is taking place?
The non-stop flight from Chile to Melbourne was launched in 2017https://www.latam.com/en_uk/press-room/releases/LATAM_Airlines_to_launch_its_longest_non-stop_flight_ever_between_Santiago_and_Melbourne/
Tom is wrong most of the time. Hardly big news, don't you think?
The lack of these actual non-stop-stop flights taking place
"The lack of these actual non-stop-stop flights taking place and yet, the people end up where they want to end up strongly suggests they are getting there some how."What about the ones that actually happen? I mean you're focusing on ones that do stop overs but even if most do, there's still going to be some that do the full trip with no stops. Even if you say it's rare that doesn't suddenly mean it doesn't happen. to use an example I've used before, if there's a small hole on a wall and i throw a handful of marbles at the hole, even if most of them don't go into it and one happens to get in, that doesn't mean the hole is non existent.
Quote from: totallackey on February 11, 2020, 04:17:22 PMThe lack of these actual non-stop-stop flights taking placeWhere's your evidence that any of these flights are not happening?
it would be damn impressive to keep that a secret... Since the commercial pilots would know it was happening, the engineers who make the planes would know it was happening... Ordinary people keeping it all under wraps out of the goodness of their hearts?
This has been addressed numerous times.
These airlines offer such flights for purchase.The thing is, if you buy such a ticket, it is:A) a NON-REFUNDABLE PURCHASE; and,B) You end up typically moved to a different flight with a stop over (one that conveniently matches the Azimuthal Equidistant Map).
Do you have a citation for this sweeping generalisation?
Quote from: ChrisTP on February 11, 2020, 04:44:15 PMit would be damn impressive to keep that a secret... Since the commercial pilots would know it was happening, the engineers who make the planes would know it was happening... Ordinary people keeping it all under wraps out of the goodness of their hearts?What reason would they have to run and tell?Do you see pilots running around telling their day-to-day job stories?Do you see a lot of pilots interviewed about flights?
I haven't denied some of these flights have happened.I am simply stating there are possibilities available for these flights to have taken place, such as midair refueling.
WOW iamcpc, my hat is off to you. TET
Triangles add up to 180 degrees, always. Maybe you’re thinking some don’t because of curve, but if you bend the legs of a triangle, it’s not a triangle.
The sum of the measures of the angles of any triangle is less than 180° if the geometry is hyperbolic, equal to 180° if the geometry is Euclidean, and greater than 180° if the geometry is elliptic