Just imagine you split the globe map at Antarctica and folded it flat. Then how would you get there? You will find the flight paths they already take make more sense that way.
All they did to create the globe is stretch the flat earth map around a ball.
All "flat" maps are projections of a sphere, as was known from their origination. The Mercator projection, with which we are all familiar, was first presented in 1569. It is more accurate to say that the projection unwrapped the Earth surface from a ball to a plane.
Just imagine you split the globe map at Antarctica and folded it flat. Then how would you get there? You will find the flight paths they already take make more sense that way.
All they did to create the globe is stretch the flat earth map around a ball.
or rather think that the north pole is in the middle of everything.
And Antarctica is the ice wall.
All "flat" maps are projections of a sphere, as was known from their origination. The Mercator projection, with which we are all familiar, was first presented in 1569. It is more accurate to say that the projection unwrapped the Earth surface from a ball to a plane.