{"id":14280,"date":"2020-05-21T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14280"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T21:19:52","slug":"why-is-that-i-never-see-polar-bears-when-my-flight-fly-over-north-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/21\/why-is-that-i-never-see-polar-bears-when-my-flight-fly-over-north-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is that I never see polar bears when my flight fly over North Pole?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Btw, is that route really more efficient than flying along the latitude?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Maps are hard, because they&#8217;re trying to represent something round as something flat. The shortest distance between two points on a sphere looks like a curve on a flat map. Ship and plane navigators call this the Great Circle Route. Here&#8217;s one way to visualize it: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-gcr.\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-gcr.<\/a> Here&#8217;s another: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-gcr2\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-gcr2<\/a> (BTW from 36,000 feet, you&#8217;d need eagle-eyes to spot a white polar bear on snow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Btw, is that route really more efficient than flying along the latitude? Maps are hard, because they&#8217;re trying to represent something round as something flat. The shortest distance between two points on a sphere looks like a curve on a flat map. Ship and plane navigators call this the Great Circle Route. Here&#8217;s one way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/05\/21\/why-is-that-i-never-see-polar-bears-when-my-flight-fly-over-north-pole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is that I never see polar bears when my flight fly over North Pole?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14284,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions\/14284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}