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Edits to Flat Earth

A number of flat-earthers point to the seemingly unusual flight paths taken by airlines when travelling, particularly the upward curve of northern hemisphere flights on maps, and the unavailability of direct flights either to a city in the lower hemisphere (usually Johannesburg or Cape Town) or between two cities in the lower hemisphere.

[Antarctic circle flights]

A much simpler way to counter this argument is to pose a similar thought experiment: On a round Earth, the distance between Washington, DC, US and Seoul, South Korea is 6933 miles, and the distance between Sydney, Australia, and Santiago, Chile is 7046 miles. Both sets of cities are roughly equally distant from the Equator, and direct flights between airports in each city (Dulles/BWI to Incheon/Gimpo, Pudahuel to Kingsford Smith) occur almost daily. In a flat earth scenario, one would expect that the southern-hemisphere flight would take significantly longer than the northern hemisphere flight. However, as commercial timetables will show, both flights take roughly the same amount of time (14.25 - 14.5 hours). Alternatively, going from Prague, Czech Republic to Seoul, South Korea (8,244 km) versus Johannesburg, South Africa to Perth, Australia (8,308 km) also work (11 hours).

College SJW Stereotypes - Fact/Fiction

• Oberlin petition to suspend failing grades for student activists http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/oberlin_college_denies_request.html
• Oberlin cultural appropriation in cafeteria food http://oberlinreview.org/9055/news/cds-appropriates-asian-dishes-students-say/
  • Something to note is one comment about how the proffered General Tso's chicken was "instead of deep-fried chicken with ginger-garlic soy sauce, the chicken was steamed with a substitute sauce, which Hiu-Ying described as 'so weird that I didn’t even try.'", when any Chinese national could tell you that the modern General Tso's chicken has little to do with traditional Hunan Chinese food (generally considered "too sweet"), and further digging in its history would reveal that it was actually first developed in the 1950s and then modified to cater to American tastes in the 1970's.
• U. Ottawa Yoga class for Disabled students ("broad review")- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/free-yoga-class-returns-to-uottawa-student-centre-1.3417817