Flat earth question

[Rick Otto]

They are "straight"lines on a globe but when projected into a flat map, they look curved.

This doesn't make sense.

 

[comana]

This doesn't make sense.

How does it not make sense?

 

[d taylor]

Well isn't that interesting, I can't copy and paste as it is a copyrighted site but I went to look it up to give a link and now Google is saying it's a 4 hour and 20 minute flight.

When a page can not be copied, do a screen shot.

 

[Rick Otto]

How does it not make sense?

Forgive me. It's a quibble. I was thinking there ARE no straight lines on a globe, but the quotation marks should allow for that, still... since on a globe the line isn't straight, it's just "straight", shouldn't projecting it change it along with everything else?

 

[Radagast]

But from Philadelphia to Branson MO. it is 17 hours to drive, but 10 hours 20 minutes to fly.

Not true. If you fly United, it's 2 hours 30 minutes Philadelphia to Chicago O'Hare (which is a little out of the way), and then 1 hour 30 minutes to Branson. Total flying time about 4 hours, but you're wasting at least an hour on the detour and the unnecessary landing and takeoff, and you're not on the same kind of aircraft as to Miami Beach. So not really surprising.