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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

No. Similarly, if you look at how planes fly, they fly in what looks like arcs, going north and then back south. On a mercator projection in looks longer, but it is the shortest straight (ignoring the curve of the earth) line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance

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