Just to act like Jesus and walk 1000 miles on water like never before.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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oh fuck they were going to france
And considering the song was released before the chunnel, he would've found difficulty achieving this feat
So basically they just really wanted to go to Iceland. Cool!
TIL the proclaimers were both jesus somehow.
We use km here!
Is this a nuclear blast radius map?
They never said that they were walking on a straight line
This just in!
The Proclaimers are actually Jesuses with their amazing ability to walk on water
Also thought, I wanna see someone cross Switzerland in a laterally straight line
Right. You need a proper isochrones map to visualize this based on walking routes.
Thanks. Now I have a new hyper focus to work on.
There are services that will generate isochrones of walk travel time for you, but they usually charge a small API fee for the calculations
Thanks I’m half way through learning how to generate maps with D3.JS
This map made me realize how small Great Britain really is. I drive 550 miles to visit my mom in the US, Great Britain is only 600 miles long from north to south.
I'm gonna say it.
Even though we're fucking tiny. We were some proper nasty bastards.
I've never read a comment with an English accent before
Man Europe is hilariously small! Don't get me wrong, it'd love to abandon the US and live there. It's just mind blowing the perspective this map gives.
With around 10.5 Mio square Kilometer surface it is a bit larger than the USA with around 9.8 Mio square Kilometer area.
You're comparing continents and countries.
North America is over twice as large. So yes, from anyone on this side of the pond it's tiny.
Am american. do not understand. live in a state that is 1000 miles wide.
A 1000 mile radius does cover a chunk of the US. Centered on Denver it covers basically everything west of Michigan (excl Alaska and Hawaii of course).
https://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm?lat=39.739236&lng=-104.984862&r=1609340
The size difference is getting to me too lol
I used to drive a 200 mile round trip weekly to visit home while I was in college.
Houston to East Texas is a fun drive.
I had a german professor once remark to me about how different Americans are, like hundreds of miles is a day trip, hundreds of miles is a week long trip by car. Bet the trains are awesome though. Amtrak long distances seems way too expensive relative to my other options when factoring in time.