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Actually the physics model to use is typically the simplest one that works, i.e. that gets the job done.

When your job is to drive a truck to the nearest city, the curvature of the Earth is negligible and it's simpler to assume that the earth is flat, so that is the model that you should use.

As such, yeah, for 99% of use cases, the earth is flat.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago

Did you just "UHM ACKtually the earth IS flat!"

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

If your truck is equipped with GPS then the Earth had better be round in your physics model.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

How does a flat earth model simplify logistics?

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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