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The line war has begun (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I feel like this is related to the can't measure the coast' thing.

Like if you zoom in enough you are always traveling in a straight line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't know... straight, I would assume, means that I could walk or drive a vehicle and not turn at all, ignoring any external influences like waves and currents in this case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

But your vehicle would itself "curve" "downwards" due to gravity, surely a straight line means that you can point a laser, or a hypothetical 0 mass particle beam, uninterrupted from your starting point to your destination.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.

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