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Originally Posted by SquareSteelBar
What earth are you talking about?
Is there another one out in space?  |
Actually, the diameter is about 41.8 except that's not in km but in millions of feet
or about 12,000 km.
As for the original post, and just repeating really, yeah, we sim sub captains sail on Planet Cylinder, one reason (apart from the save/load issue) the sunrise and sunset times for a given coordinate are messy. As a result of this peculiar planetary design, the longitude lines are parallell in every Euclidian sense of the word and the distances get wacky when you go north or south of Equator..
I would be VERY interested in having a look at work done to make a curved world surface, if only for the North Atlantic, and, one can dream, the arctic ocean.