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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Are plane tickets real?
« on: April 04, 2020, 05:12:09 PM »The distances calculated by the Haversine formula match a sphere and no other shape.
That is where part of the problem is. According to the RE model the earth is NOT a sphere. It is a spheroid or an oblate spheroid.
If those overseas distances truly are accurate that it is VERY strong evidence which suggest:
1. The earth is NOT the shape that is claimed.
2. Someone made a mistake somewhereSo if your Bing distances are always 100% in agreement with a Haversine distance for any two locations then the underlying shape used by Bing cannot be anything other than a sphere.
Someone would need a pretty big sample size to start to believe that it's 100%. Even if it was 100% it's just more evidence that the earth is not the shape that we were told it was.
iampc: You continually harp on this "sphere, spheroid, oblate spheroid" issue but the difference between the equatorial axis and the polar axis of the earth in RET is less than approximately 50 km. This is less than one half of one percent. For most calculations like the distance between Hong Kong and San Francisco the calculations will come out roughly the same regardless of whether you use a perfect sphere as your model or a spheroid.
In most conversations it's reasonable to call the earth a sphere in RET, even if we know it's not a perfect sphere.