Message from @error404; limes bday in a while
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Not encountering any edges
Straight line you say..
What’s these lines
Planes?
What if we throw the earth into the sun like a frisbee
what lines
Hm I don’t understand
You wouldn’t walk an actual ‘straight line’ around the earth.
You’d be doing a large circle.
Yeah
?
I mean that
mean what
if you are responding to whoever that is i have them blocked
I walk a line that curves very slowly but I will eventually turn 360 degrees
Around earth
yes
a straight line on a sphere is a thing
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Whatever, since this chat is not moderated, I’m not going to bother.
its more general because in spherical space you can move in a straight line
its just called a geodesic
I’m in the USA, if I walk a perfect straight line for an enough amount of distance I’ll eventually get to USA again
The line I walk curves so little you can’t even notice it
Because of the size of earth and how long your traveling
because in more abstract spaces you need to define what a straight line is
all you do is define a metric in that space and from that you can derive a straight line called a geodesic
But I am gonna some point turn 60 degrees 90 and at some point 360 degrees
And USA lies in the 360 degrees
That I’ve just crossed
some would say that the metric defines the space
Planes can’t fly to space and go outside of earth cause of gravity not allowing that
Simple
You can’t escape earths gravity unless you travel equally or above 25000 mph
from its surface
escape velocity
The more a plane flies higher the less air molecules are gonna be there which will make it harder for the plane to stay airborne, less oxygen results less combustible fuel to power the engine
ye
also most planes are self stabalising
The highest distance a plane flied above the surface was 123532 feet high but yet made it 1/3 the way to space