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Budding sailors could theoretically set off from India and arrive 8,000 miles (13,000km) later in the far east of Alaska without once touching the helm or hitting land.
Scientists from the University of Zurich created a model that predicts the time it takes to fly between two cities from the distance between them - but it only works if the Earth is a globe.
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