Round or flat earth? -- Trans-Atlantic Plotting

[Hitch]

All,
I'm getting ready to make a Trans-Atlantic voyage and was wondering if SH3 models a round or flat earth? It seems that when I plot a Great Circle Route (north up to Greenland and then down the coast from Newfoundland) it actually is a longer path than if I just plot one straight across to America.

Also, what was the historical optimal path to the Carribbean and S. America?

Thanks,
Hitch

[AlanSmithee]

I've always wondered this too. Somehow I doubt the whole world is round, even though the little bubble that you occupy is, i.e. masts do appear over the horizon first.

[Oberon]

The world is flat and carried on the back of four elephants and a turtle.
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/florent.bouchez/discworld/images/a-tuin-the-turtle.gif
If you sail towards the end for too long you'll fall off, doomed to cruise through space for eternity...or until you're picked up by a passing Federation starship.
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/205/utrek2xi.jpg

[Bort]

It's pretty sad but there actually are morons who belive the earth is flat... http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

[JonZ]

* Bort]It's pretty sad but there actually are morons who belive the earth is flat... http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm



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[Type XXIII]

I'm quite sure that website is meant as a joke.

EDIT: last doubts removed

Over a period of several months, over half of the workers in the Wisconsin state prison system were "relocated", their positions filled by our associates. The list of replacements includes 7 guards, 957 cafeteria workers, 3716 Pepsi machine repairmen and 14 members of the clergy. With our operatives strategically emplaced, the convicts and felons are being given a healthy dose of "pro-Flat Earth" propaganda.
Success story: Upon escaping during a bloody shootout that left 19 prison workers and 27 prisoners dead, a reformed felon known only as "Rasp" went directly to a payphone and contacted our HQ. He is currently working in place of "retired" health-care worker Mr. Sonnovin at the Green Acres nursing home in Charlamange, WI.

Still:
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[Dantenoc]

funny site :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

and yet kinda of spooky :-? ... any moron can write something on the internet, and they're allways be someone else who beleives it :dead: !!

[Tikigod]

It's pretty sad but there actually are morons who belive the earth is flat... http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

Yeah, I would like to submit my theory....I think the world appears round because we have round eyes...that is why the moon appears round....if we had flat eyes we would see the earth and other celestial objects in their "true" form. Flat is the standard...not this other round crap.

[Dowly]

Just think about it, maybe our solar system is a somekind of cell inside of a giant! Scary! :doh:

[Tikigod]

Just think about it, maybe our solar system is a somekind of cell inside of a giant! Scary! :doh:

or maybe we are a simulator that uboat guys play. :o wow this forum is trippy....conversations getting really deep man.....I think its time to check the C02 levels....

[Dowly]

Just think about it, maybe our solar system is a somekind of cell inside of a giant! Scary! :doh:

or maybe we are a simulator that uboat guys play. :o

SimEarth. :o

[jasondef]

And the moon is made of pizza

[Dowly]

And the moon is made of pizza

WHAT!?! :o

I always though, it was made of cheese... :cry:

[Rotary Crewman]

Love the disclaimer :rotfl:

The Flat Earth Society is not in any way responsible for the failure of the French to repel the Germans at the Maginot Line during WWII. Nor is the Flat Earth Society responsible for the recent yeti sightings outside the Vatican, or for the unfortunate enslavement of the Nabisco Inc. factory employees by a rogue hamster insurrectionist group. Furthermore, we are not responsible for the loss of one or more of the following, which may possibly occur as the result of exposing one's self to the dogmatic and dangerously subversive statements made within: life, limb, vision, Francois Mitterand, hearing, taste, smell, touch, thumb, Aunt Mildred, citizenship, spleen, bedrock, cloves, I Love Lucy reruns, toaster, pine derby racer, toy duck, antelope, horseradish, prosthetic ankle, double-cheeseburger, tin foil, limestone, watermelon-scented air freshner, sanity, paprika, German to Pig Latin dictionary, dish towel, pet Chihuahua, pogo stick, Golf Digest subscription, floor tile, upper torso or halibut.

[redsolo]

I always though, it was made of cheese... :cry:

IT IS! And I got the proof to prove it. Go to http://moon.google.com/ and zoom in as much as you can!! Google cant be wrong, can they?

[don1reed]

All,
I'm getting ready to make a Trans-Atlantic voyage and was wondering if SH3 models a round or flat earth? It seems that when I plot a Great Circle Route (north up to Greenland and then down the coast from Newfoundland) it actually is a longer path than if I just plot one straight across to America.

Also, what was the historical optimal path to the Carribbean and S. America?

Thanks,
Hitch

GC courses appear to be longer, curved, on Mercator Projection charts and Rhumb line courses appear as straight lines; whereas the reverse occurs on Oblique Mercator, Gnomic and Conic Projection charts See Bowditch, Chap 3.
http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187

[Noè]

I think,I'm.

[kenijaru]

And the moon is made of pizza
wow!!! i want to be an astronaut! :|\
i love pizza :rotfl:

[Rotary Crewman]

That google moon thing is brilliant :rotfl: