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Palin of the Flat Earth
Palin to Katie: "When you consider national security issues with Russia, as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's right over the border."
This is true as long as the earth is flat.
But in the real world the earth is an oblate spheroid and, except for flights from Vladivostok to the US west coast, which may cross a part of the Aleutian Island chain, Flights from Russia to the US follow west-bound great circles that take them over the North Atlantic, this is even true for flights from Moscow to Anchorage Alaska.
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And according to Josh, Palin has been unhelpful with those community-to-community US-Russian actions across the strait.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008174647_palinrussia12m0.html
September 26, 2008 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
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