If the Earth is flat - how it’s possible:
You can make the following flights, starting at 9am, finishing at 3pm (or earlier) and staying at the hotel till the next day:
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London, Uk => New York => Los Angeles => Tokyo => Doha => London, UK
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The above series of trips starts and ends in the same place.
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All the time, while flying, you’ve got the Sun on the left hand side.
You can only explain that in 2 ways:
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Earth is a globe as we know it, or
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Earth is flat, but then it needs to have a shape of a donut where the sun is in the center of it, so you fly around it.
The second would mean: when you fly South of London you should cross the middle of a donut (which is the Sun) after 12 hours of trip.
Let’s fly towards the sun:
London, UK => South Africa => the Sun.
Unfortunately, after 12 hours you end up in an extremely cold area.
There's just one problem with the procedure that just occurred to me now: If the Earth is round then the curvature of the planet would add to the observed angular difference.