The Real Shape Of The Globe
The Real Shape of The Globe
By Chongchen Saelee
Most depictions of the globe is an oversimplification, a mapping projection made by cartographers so it is easier to read and navigate.
But the actual physical earth is not a perfect sphere. If anything was a perfect sphere, it would be the Earth’s atmoshphere. Everything else is irregular. So to map the physical land to a perfect sphere is inaccurate.
So if you were to fly a literal straight path from point-to-point, there would be no curve like how some animations depict it. You would actually travel faster and shorter distances.