Posted Jan 14, 2021, 7:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Loop, Chicago
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Originally Posted by edale
^ So weird. The general travel direction from NYC to Hong Kong is southwest. Dallas is both further south and west of NYC, so it would seem obvious that it's closer to HK. I'm guessing it's due to the fact that Dallas' path to HK requires going along part of the earth with a greater diameter than the more northern route that one would take going from NY to HK.
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Rhumb lines are not geodesics.
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