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The line war has begun (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Also if you jump, the moment you leave the ground until you touch it again coming back down you were traveling in a straight line.

relative to the body of earth, including its rotation it would be an arc path, and including it's tilt it would be 3d, if we also include the travel around the sun in orbit, that elongates it around the orbit, so uh.

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