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banana_giraffe
1883 days ago
Assuming a spherical earth, it's 4873 km.
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foobar1962
1883 days ago
Assuming a spherical earth in a vacuum... One of the few times that simplifying assumption matches reality.
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kelnos
1883 days ago
Not quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.
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dylan604
1883 days ago
How far is it if you assume a flat earth?
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hulahoof
1883 days ago
5000km
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