Reply to post: Re: It isn't that...it's something else !

GPS, you've gone too far this time

BobRocket
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Re: It isn't that...it's something else !

'The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.'

You have to remember that we live on a giant ball, the shortest distance on the surface of a sphere is a great circle.

The sober one will walk a straight line which is a longer distance, the drunk will stagger with a bias towards the downhill, the drunk on average walks closer to the great circle and so covers less distance (as long as you don't count the backwards lurches)

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