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*** B: Avatar world is flat
**** The Avatar world is pretty obviously not flat. Horizons and the atmosphere work the same, and when Aang is up in space absorbing Cosmic Energy, the world curves below him.
*** You forgot "C: the world is round, and encompasses more than what we see on the map." It's like looking at a picture of Eurasia and thinking "that's all there is to Earth, so why didn't the Mongols build a boat and conquer England?" You're also assuming that there's not a huge ocean in between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation. It's why no one wanted to fund Columbus: everyone knew the Earth was round, and they also knew it was really damn huge. Columbus thought he could take a ship and sail across to Asia. Everyone else thought that he and his crew would die long before they hit the Indies- and they were right. It's just that Columbus ran into the Americas, and didn't have to worry about starving to death. With that in mind, would you really want to cross an unknown expanse of ocean with only what you can carry on Appa?
**** The "vast, empty ocean" idea is probably the correct one. After all, the Fire Nation has iron-hulled steamships, meaning that they should be able to do some very effective mapping of the seas west of the Fire Nation archipelago. The fact that the western ocean is never mentioned either as an area of interest or of travel suggests that there's probably nothing there but open ocean with maybe some scattered islands (like much of the Pacific Ocean, for example). Actually sending ships that way would be wasteful and difficult (in real life, coal ships usually required stops for re-fueling, so the Fire Nation would be wasting coal sending the ships the long way).
** I don't see why the "enormous expanse of water" explanation doesn't work. We're talking about during the Winter Solstice, right? So they had a time limit for sneaking into the Fire Nation. If you were in England, for example, and needed to get to the U.S. in the next two days, given the speed Appa can fly, would you fly your not-really-magic flying bison east, across the entire Eurasian continent AND all of the Pacific, or would you fly straight across the Atlantic? Exactly. They just didn't have the time.
*** I was actually referring to the time period where the episode "The Awakening" takes place. And if you'd actually read my first post in its entirety, you would have seen that I said the only reasons the Gaang couldn't just fly east to the Fire Nation would be because there was an enormous expanse of ocean '''or''' there was some sort of landmass blocking the way.
* The Fire Nation has an Eastern Fleet. Going East from the Earth Kingdoms means they'd still run into a blockade.
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