Great blog post
iirc, George Orwell had an essay where he asked, how do you *know the earth is round and the best evidence he had (iirc circa 1940) was that boats and planes traveled thousands of miles and wound up at the correct spot, which implied that the navigation model was correct
@failedLyndonLaRouchite Wow! I'll have to find it! I didn't know there was such an essay. Surely it would be a fun reading assignment.