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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To be fair, there is only one non-stop commercial flight between Australia and South America. I'm not a flat earther but pointing out this fact sure makes me feel like one 🤔

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.

    For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don't go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there one that isn’t nonstop (excluding stopovers in New Zealand- not because it doesn’t count, but because I’m wondering whether there’s a place to stop between South America and Oceania)?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I can find some flights from Australia to Columbia with a stopover in Hawaii, but it looks like a non-optimal route. But yeah there's not much there between Australia and South America other than New Zealand... and Antarctica if you're a round Earth shill ;)

    Weird how there's a direct flight between Melbourne and Santiago, Chile... two places that are in in the southern parts of their respective continents.

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