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xkcd: Chessboard Alignment

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3177/

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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.
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  Probably accounting for the curvature of earths surface.
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  Neil Degrasse Tyson did a Star Talk Explainer recently about Great Circles
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  The circles might be the people viewed from above?
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