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Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

xkcd: Chessboard Alignment

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xkcd: Chessboard Alignment

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Otter Raft@lemmy.ca to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3177/

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    No hover text? Boo!

    Here it is and I have to admit I don’t understand it:

    Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

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      Probably accounting for the curvature of earths surface.

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      Neil Degrasse Tyson did a Star Talk Explainer recently about Great Circles

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      The circles might be the people viewed from above?

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        A great circle is a path that follows a circle of the Earth’s circumference. The shortest distance between two points on Earth is along a great circle

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