This would be an impossibility if we lived on a spinning and orbiting ball.

@LamontCranston
What made Science to be, (to give some few but significative provisory answers, not enough but still far better than thousands of years of nonsense) is to refuse to be defined by knowledge (a result) but by it´s object (so known as if not).
That qualifies consensus.
If it is based on a "worldview" apriori from the factual, it use to be crap.
If is a convergence of the scientific community with facts, it may be useful even if always under revision.

@ElRengo An open mind is always necessary, particularly in scientific endeavors.

@LamontCranston
Of course, agree
Is one of those things that is always needed and never enough.
May be it would be even more important IF Science where mainly about what minds hold (cognitive).
But science is not only nor mainly epistemology.
It´s a bit like telescopes, you NEED them clean (as much as minds improve with less bias)
But science is about what is out there and not in the lens.

@OggggO It didn't show up as a link, and I am not going to copy and paste it into my browser.

@TBIman Similar worlds doesn't support embedding links. Your willingness or not to copy it is on you. Regardless, the point is that the routes planes take only make sense if they are traveling along a sphere, rather than a flat plane.

@TBIman Hmmmm. I was going to sign up for that ROUND the world cruise butthis casts the project into serious doubt.

@btchstfu
Not bad.
But I suspect that may be the case of kerosene instead

@btchstfu I do not understand your comment, but it's probably my fault because I am a flat Earther,

@TBIman
No no
Not yours but Earth´s fault.
It refuse to make the effort to be flat just to please you.
What a..........

@MrBlueGuy No that is nothing of what it would look like. Think about it, man. A spinning AND ORBITING ball. We only observe one motion. That is of the sky spinning around us.

@TBIman Does the sky spin?

@TBIman Try using Wikipedia. It explains plenty.

A pole star or polar star is a star, preferably bright, nearly aligned with the axis of a rotating astronomical body.

Currently, Earth's pole stars are Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris), a bright magnitude-2 star aligned approximately with its northern axis that serves as a pre-eminent star in celestial navigation, and a much dimmer magnitude-5.5 star on its southern axis, Polaris Australis (Sigma Octantis).

From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole stars, though neither was as close to the pole as Polaris is now.

@Diotrephes The Sun is what is moving. It comes from far away so the Sun only appears to rise and set based on the human perspective. There is no Solar System. The Earth occupies the central position. So it's a Geosystem. And it's not a flat planet. It's a plane.

@TBIman So why does a ship heading out to sea disappear over the horizon due to the curvature of the earth?

@TBIman I seriously hope that you truly believe this. I’ve always been curious about who the stupidest person on earth is and now you’ve shown us. Please don’t drive a car or operate heavy machinery.

@SW-User Right on.

@Nelisme Yup. More or less. It most definitely not spinning, nor is it a ball. You should look into the flat and motionless Earth.

@TBIman