So you'd have to reconcile that too

Orbit in turn demands gravity

If satellites were balloons they wouldn't call it an approximation

It would just be the flight controller algorithm

The papers would instead be all about controlling lighter than air objects in winds

*They're not*

Which has nothing to do with the shape of the earth.

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Exactly

Well, it does a bit, but

It's not important here

Wind patterns, I suppose, but that still works on a flat plane via projections

Doesn't seem that damming anymore

If anything it's pro Globe

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Honestly, If we live on a globe, I don’t see how using the flat earth model is helpful in any analysis of data. If it’s a globe, it’s not useful. Irresponsible, actually.

Quite the opposite

When a model can be simplified, the margin for error is reduced.

There are simply less steps and less variables

It allows things to be carried out more quickly to the much the same standard, if not better in some cases

This makes calculations more reliable

It's thinking smarter and not harder

And more reliable is almost always superior

Tbh, if I want to study data for the globe...I would probably want to use the globe model. Your suggestion that it’s the easy way. Well, that idiotic. The easy way is never the right way

You’re looking at this as if it’s meant to counteract FE arguments

It isn’t

The data has hardly anything to do with a globe at all

It uses a simplified representation of coordinates in an effort to make the data more precise and reliable. The flat model can be reprojected as an elliptical shape once the data is collected, at that.

Think of it this way

You have a piece of paper rolled up into a ball

Now you are tasked with getting exact distances for points located across the paper ball

Instead of calculating everything in a difficult manner and accounting for an excessive amount of additional parameters

@The Gwench I'm sorry, but that just isn't the case. It isn't idiotic to use approximations and all controllers and instrumentation does it to some extent. Mapping sections of the earth by taking an average of a certain terrain cell and calling it 'flat' over a large number of cells is how the instruments collate the data.

Just unfold the paper ball

Each 'cell' is approximately flat, and is computed as such in the instrumentation.

And measure everything with a straight line.

Constructing N cells can be folded into a spheroid.

Simpler, more accurate, more effective.

It'll look like this:

Now you know.