@Simpadoo @BleachWaffen @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @mrsaturday @teto

> other ridiculous hoaxes that the web has doctored to push memetic conditioning unto us.

Sure. But you get the same thing on page after page after page of results if you mash "haversine formula" into the box. I'm with you on the possibility of doctored history, but sometimes it's not a psyop, it's just that there's not a plausible alternative version.