• filcuk@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know… straight, I would assume, means that I could walk or drive a vehicle and not turn at all, ignoring any external influences like waves and currents in this case.

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      2 months ago

      But your vehicle would itself “curve” “downwards” due to gravity, surely a straight line means that you can point a laser, or a hypothetical 0 mass particle beam, uninterrupted from your starting point to your destination.

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        2 months ago

        Depends on your frame of reference. When traversing the surface of a globe, your described concept of a straight line isn’t intuitive.

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        2 months ago

        in ur every day life if u travel in a car without changing direction would u say that u went in a straight line or in an arc. Clearly u are just trying to be a pedantic cunt for no reason.