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Go in gcmap dot com and map Santiago to Sydney "SCL-SYD" it is 7,060 miles and doesn't go over the south pole using a great circle.
No go calculate the miles on a flat earth map and you get double the miles.
Do you really think every ship captain for 500 years has been altering the logs to make it look like the clipper route was faster and nobody noticed?
Your belief system is "everything I don't believe is a lie" which is totally circular, ironically.
Also try booking some flights between south America and Australia. I guarantee the route will make far more sense on a gleason map than a globe. Play around with some different airports on each continent and see what the airlines offer. Plot the route on both globe and FE.
I said Perth to Buenos Aires because the shortest path is almost directly across the south pole (allegedly). I am a Mariner and it is my profession that lead me to FE. I'm not the only one. Charts come in all sorts of projections (distortions) and most people never think beyond that. Furthermore GPS (which is really a more advanced version of loran, and not from satellites) and chart programs take most of the thinking away from modern mariners. Why do you think it was possible to navigate across oceans whether cultures thought the earth was flat or a globe?
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=EZE-Per&MS=wls&DU=mi