Argo is a program of ocean monitering using sophisticated bouys. Here's one-- 1900978
http://www.argodatamgt.org/Access-to-data/Description-of-all-floats2
It was released south of South Africa in 2009 and is now south of New Zealand. Thus it has taken 7 years to float 3/4 of the way around the world-- 7 years! It's right in the area where they say the Antarctica Circumpolar Current ACC is strongest. If you say 1-2 knots (I found 5 knots)... then we'll take your number-- say 1 knot.
A 15,000 mile radius at 1 knot (close enough to 1 mph for our purpose here), that's 15,000 hours. It should take 15000 mi / 1 mph = 15,000 hours / 24 hr/day = 625 days or 1.7 years to circumnavigate at that latitude-- give or take.
But so far it has taken 7 years or 4X as long to go just 3/4 of the way around. If it takes another 3 years to finish, it will have been 10 years vs. the 1.7-- or close to 2 years it should have taken. That's an order of magnitude of 5X-- which is close to the order of magnitude difference between a circumnavigation of 15,000 vs. 60,000 miles for spherical or flat earth at that latitude-- which is 4X.
In effect, Argo Platform 1900978 proves earth is flat. Thanks, Felix!
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Hi, I'm Captain Rick of the Virtual Circumference Voyage of Antarctica. I intend to prove definitively if Earth is flat or a sphere by paying careful attention to how many miles we cover as we travel "around" Antarctica. Flat earth theory says it's 50-60,000 miles. Spherical Earth theory says it 14,000 miles. Join me and ask any questions that you think would help our mission.