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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: timothyleary on August 31, 2018, 02:44:02 PM

Title: Long Way Round
Post by: timothyleary on August 31, 2018, 02:44:02 PM

Hey Y'all,

Anyone here watch the TV show 'Long Way Round'? A TV show where two people go around the world from London to New York the wrong way. How would this be possible on a flat Earth?

Title: Re: Long Way Round
Post by: Tom Bishop on August 31, 2018, 06:59:30 PM

They traveled turnwise.

https://wiki.tfes.org/Circumnavigation

Title: Re: Long Way Round
Post by: iamcpc on August 31, 2018, 09:45:57 PM

Timothy,

           The only flat earth model which can best describe what is happening here is that the earth is an infinitely repeating flat plane.

Quote from: Tom Bishop on August 31, 2018, 06:59:30 PM

They traveled turnwise.

https://wiki.tfes.org/Circumnavigation

Tom,

          That flat earth model does not measure up to measured travel distances.

Title: Re: Long Way Round
Post by: Dr Van Nostrand on August 31, 2018, 09:52:47 PM

Yes, an east to west course on the flat earth works like it would on a round earth.

However, distances in the Southern Hemisphere of the flat earth are wrong by a couple of orders of magnitude. This issue is ignored in the wiki. I don't presume to speak for flat earthers but I think they say that our measurement of distances is flawed in the way they are measured or our perceptions of those distances are flawed.