"Stupid or shocking" travel / geography related things you just learned about
Nov 18, 2017, 9:45 pm
#136
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Nov 20, 2017, 4:08 pm
#137
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When online PS4 game playing, I sometimes ask another player where they are from and when they say X state, I like to answer, 'oh, I'm south of you in Canada.' Confuses the heck out of a lot of them. There are 27 US states south of where I live in Canada!
http://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
http://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
Nov 20, 2017, 9:15 pm
#138
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Didnt realize how truely large the Pacific Ocean is until I looked at flight duration.
Seattle to Shanghai across the pacific is about 5700 miles which is about the same distance between London and Shanghai.
I know planes take a northern flight route but seems like the entire Asian and European continent can fit into the Pacific ocean?
Seattle to Shanghai across the pacific is about 5700 miles which is about the same distance between London and Shanghai.
I know planes take a northern flight route but seems like the entire Asian and European continent can fit into the Pacific ocean?
Nov 21, 2017, 12:15 pm
#141
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The inverse of the "USA is so big and spread out" realization - how close together some of the major cities in Western Europe are. You could wake up for breakfast in London, grab lunch in Paris, dinner in Brussels, and make it to Amsterdam for some late night partying and really not be rushed at any point in time.
And old too, I remember seeing the Cathedral in Antwerp and realizing "140 years after they started building this thing, Christopher Columbus hopped on a boat and started heading West." I then have to laugh whenever the local historical society in Baton Rouge rushes in to save some 80 year old run-down building.
And old too, I remember seeing the Cathedral in Antwerp and realizing "140 years after they started building this thing, Christopher Columbus hopped on a boat and started heading West." I then have to laugh whenever the local historical society in Baton Rouge rushes in to save some 80 year old run-down building.
Nov 21, 2017, 12:30 pm
#142
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The inverse of the "USA is so big and spread out" realization - how close together some of the major cities in Western Europe are. You could wake up for breakfast in London, grab lunch in Paris, dinner in Brussels, and make it to Amsterdam for some late night partying and really not be rushed at any point in time.
And old too, I remember seeing the Cathedral in Antwerp and realizing "140 years after they started building this thing, Christopher Columbus hopped on a boat and started heading West." I then have to laugh whenever the local historical society in Baton Rouge rushes in to save some 80 year old run-down building.
And old too, I remember seeing the Cathedral in Antwerp and realizing "140 years after they started building this thing, Christopher Columbus hopped on a boat and started heading West." I then have to laugh whenever the local historical society in Baton Rouge rushes in to save some 80 year old run-down building.
Nov 21, 2017, 7:43 pm
#143
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When online PS4 game playing, I sometimes ask another player where they are from and when they say X state, I like to answer, 'oh, I'm south of you in Canada.' Confuses the heck out of a lot of them. There are 27 US states south of where I live in Canada!
http://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
http://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
Didnt realize how truely large the Pacific Ocean is until I looked at flight duration.
Seattle to Shanghai across the pacific is about 5700 miles which is about the same distance between London and Shanghai.
I know planes take a northern flight route but seems like the entire Asian and European continent can fit into the Pacific ocean?
Seattle to Shanghai across the pacific is about 5700 miles which is about the same distance between London and Shanghai.
I know planes take a northern flight route but seems like the entire Asian and European continent can fit into the Pacific ocean?
It really makes you realize how incredible the Polynesians were to have explored and settled so many little specks of land across the vastness of the Pacific, as far east as Easter Island.
Nov 23, 2017, 10:30 am
#145
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And old too, I remember seeing the Cathedral in Antwerp and realizing "140 years after they started building this thing, Christopher Columbus hopped on a boat and started heading West." I then have to laugh whenever the local historical society in Baton Rouge rushes in to save some 80 year old run-down building.