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| May 8, 2021 at 7:57 | comment | added | user22279 | @MarkRansom: exactly. In navigation this is called great circle navigation. 'Hiking along a meridian' as suggested by the OP is just a special case of that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle. | |
| May 8, 2021 at 2:14 | comment | added | Mark Ransom | The interesting thing about antipodes is that it doesn't matter which direction you start in, the arc from one to the other is always the same distance (assuming a perfect sphere). That means almost by definition that it's the halfway point. | |
| S May 7, 2021 at 20:44 | history | suggested | Doug Deden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2021 at 18:51 | history | edited | user22279 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2021 at 11:08 | history | answered | user22279 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |