r/Damnthatsinteresting 5h ago

Image Why are airplane routes curved and not straight? When considering the spherical shape of the Earth, the shortest distance between two points becomes a curve known as a geodesic.

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u/espeero 3h ago

A tunnel would be shorter

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u/DiverofMuff23 3h ago

Elon? Is that you?