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Bad News for Round-Earthers

The trip has still not started. Shucks.

In the meantime, some bad news for all you round-Earthers out there: United Airlines Flight 934 (yes, the very flight that Gordon I will shortly be taking) has definitively discovered that the world is, after all, flat.


The amateurish video shows the UAL 934 flight paths from the last couple of weeks. That's right, UAL 934 has proved beyond doubt that Great Circles are indeed not always the shortest distance between two places on the planet. And therefore the world must be flat (I heard someone mutter something about map projections and jet streams, but I'm sure they have no idea what they're on about). I can't really explain what the pilot was doing with that little diversion over Greenland on October 18th though. Perhaps something to do with global warming? Maybe UAL 934 will shortly explode that myth too?

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  1. Bette KorberOctober 28, 2012 at 12:57 PM

    Hey Richard and Gordon -- Elizabeth notes we should post ideas for spots to visit here, so here are some thoughts just in case they are near your path:

    Edinburgh:
    1) Really great scottish food at a good price in Edinburgh at Mum's: Veggie Haggis! YES! http://www.monstermashcafe.co.uk/
    2) Pubs for trad music:
    We loved the Royal Oak -- we heard a wonderful irish woman singing mysterious and haunting songs in Irish, and then an old highlander with a twinkle in his eyes and charming way about him sang old traditional Scottish songs.
    http://www.royal-oak-folk.com/ -- if they don't have music upstairs try downstairs.

    The old gentleman who sang at the Royal Oak joined us at our table and invited us to a regular session the next night at Sandy Bells (the Sandy Bells session was a Tues, in case that it helpful, I think it was a weekly session), where Sky was made very welcome to join in, and you would be too if you had a Zouk, at:
    https://plus.google.com/114304914662503938995/about?gl=us&hl=en

    Other spots:
    Not too far North of Edinburgh is Dunkheld
    http://www.thetaybank.co.uk/
    The Taybank has Incredible sessions, most every night something is happening. Very beautiful hiking near by, ruins of a very ancient and beautiful cathedral (I think it was the center of the Catholic Church in the 12th century in the UK) in the heart of little Dunkheld, local standing stones (smallish ones, but still cool) and Neil Gow lived there:
    http://www.thetaybank.co.uk/forthcoming-events
    You would love everything about it.

    One the way North:
    In Northumbria, not too far South of Edinburgh, is a gorgeous very old B&B called Thistlyhaugh, run by a lovely family, close to wonderful things: Hadrian's wall, incredible old castles and abbeys, beautiful sea, (though I'm sure very cold):
    http://www.thistleyhaugh.co.uk/. Its a working farm, now organic, and the couple that run it are the nicest people you could imagine. Their boys (young men, actually) are sheep shearing champions. But Tango says I should point out that the best thing was the border collies --
    they just had pups when we where there, some years ago.


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