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No hover text? Boo!Here it is and I have to admit I don't understand it:Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
A great circle is a path that follows a circle of the Earth's circumference. The shortest distance between two points on Earth is along a great circle
No hover text? Boo!
Here it is and I have to admit I don't understand it:
Probably accounting for the curvature of earths surface.
Neil Degrasse Tyson did a Star Talk Explainer recently about Great Circles
The circles might be the people viewed from above?
A great circle is a path that follows a circle of the Earth's circumference. The shortest distance between two points on Earth is along a great circle