When a flat Earther tells you that water cannot curve
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As i explained in the last comment - the coordinate system we ascribe/use is entirely arbitrary. It has nothing to do with the shape of the world. People are also encouraged to make this erroneous conflation with timezones. I find it patently absurd and plainly nonsensical - just look at the statements :
The world has to be spherical because "timezones".
or in your case
The world has to be spherical because "geometry"/"longitude and latitude".
It's doesn't make a lick of sense.
Yes, sailing and flying exist. No, this doesn't prove the world is spherical... Why on earth would it?!
The world was decided to be spherical (also arbitrarily) long before longitude and latitude. They played absolutely no part in determining the shape of the world - then and now. "Your" entire argument (your is in quotes because it was given to you, and is not your own!) is retroactively backfilled/contrived.
We both agree that latitude and longitude work. We can also agree that if the world is flat that, most likely, the known sizes for the latitude lines in the "southern hemisphere" are wrong - as well as the known distances between longitude lines.
Many people think similar things about maps. Maps prove this and that about the shape of the world.
But maps and the coordinate systems on them are merely tools for travel. They don't contain (or depend on) the shape of the world, nor do they need to! When they work, we use them - when they don't we change them. The world, and its shape, remains the same.
The real question is, if the world really were flat (or at least not spherical the way we are taught), would you want to know it? Even if knowing the truth brought you ridicule, and even exile?
You were wrong in your last comment.
If there was ANY mathematical deviation from the physical Earth's,
longitude and latitude could not accurately predict on it's surface.
The lick of sense missing here is no one having ever taught you Geometry.
We don't use longitude and latitude for prediction. We use it for location.
Coordinate systems are arbitrary, despite your want that they be providential.
Geometry isn't what we are discussing. We are discussing the shape of the world, and measuring/determining it with certainty. "Longitude/latitude" is not one of the ways to do that. You've been misinformed.
Yes hick, we use Long/Lat for PREDICTION. You're just another ignorant Bodine instute hick.
GEOMETRY is what THOSE ROOTED in REALITY are DISCUSSING.
YOU'RE discussing the mental illness of not being able to understand why EVERY single GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES system
is a SUBSET
of the SPHERICAL COORDINATES mathematical systems.
You're just another innumerate, illiterate hick who flunked out of the public's Jethro Bodine institute for hicks.