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The line war has begun (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] filcuk 4 points 3 months ago (1 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

in ur every day life if u travel in a car without changing direction would u say that u went in a straight line or in an arc. Clearly u are just trying to be a pedantic cunt for no reason.