Makes perfect sense to me. When starting the shortest path for a flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, you don't point the plane toward Japan, you point it towards Alaska.

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flymasterv 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, you also point it at Japan.

	▲	SamBam 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed, ideally you'd point it at the only path that is pointing straight towards Japan. No other path actually points towards Japan (except the one going in the opposite direction, but that's longer).