stackyFACTSTrying to draw straight travel grids on a sphere means that the closer you get to the northernmost points of the planet, the more useless typical latitude and longitude lines become.
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Why do commercial airplanes and massive cargo ships both use red and green lights on their outermost sides at night?
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It is absurdly huge and visually swallows entire city layouts. You practically need to board a secondary smaller flight just to reach your designated…
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Why do commercial flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo completely avoid flying straight over the Pacific Ocean?
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The terrain is way too hostile to bother laying down thousands of miles of heavy steel track. They entirely skip trains and strictly rely on personal cars and…
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Digging the massive underground Channel Tunnel between England and France produced such an unfathomable amount of excavated chalk and dirt that the British…
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Pan-American Highway holds the Guinness World Record for the longest motorable road, stretching roughly nineteen thousand miles from Alaska down to the tip of…
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