Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
10 points by joebig 52 minutes ago | 1 comments

ventana 31 minutes ago
The paper is basically like this (spoiler alert):

“Some random user on Reddit posted a picture claiming that this is the longest straight line path on water possible on the Earth. We implemented a smart algorithm to solve this problem, found the elevation data, ran our algorithm... yes, that random user was right. Also, here's the longest path on land.”

Thanks, I really enjoyed reading it, even though I hoped that they would disprove the original claim!

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