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Travel the world now, it gets harder as you age.
by justherefortart 9y ago
Travel the world now, it gets harder as you age.
- Avamander 9y agoWith what funds...
- ytwySXpMbS 9y agoIf you try it can be extremely cheap. For example, hitchhiking is free. Depends on the country of course in regards to safety. If you stay in youth hostels it's significantly cheaper than hotels, and you meet more people, etc.
- ams6110 9y agoTravel is overrated, and environmentally catastrophic. Enjoy where you live, or if you don't like it, move.
- hodl 9y agoUse a canoe
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- Retric 9y agoTravel is fairly trivial environmentally. Having a long commute by car is worse than traveling around the world by air every year which is extremely uncommon. On average a passenger mile on a modern jet uses significantly less fuel than driving that same mile.
- SirLuxuryYacht 9y ago[citation needed]
- Moto7451 9y agoI found this data[0] care of The Guardian regarding pollution created per passenger mile. The GP said fuel per mile but the GGP was talking about pollution. It’s from 2009 so it’s likely in the right ballpark but not 100% accurate given the model of plane they used (737-400) has been largely replaced with newer/denser/more efficient models (737 Max 7/8/900 series) as have cars gotten more efficient. Basically, if you drive an SUV or high end sports car, you’re in the same ballpark as a full plane. If the plane is half full or you drive a small car, the car wins per passenger-mile (or km in this case). [0] http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Agol553XfuDZdHlWSmRRckpXZWdSczdoVVBjbHU2dHc&hl=en_GB http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Agol553XfuDZdHlWSmRR...
- Retric 9y agoAircraft fuel efficiency has gotten dramatically better since 2009. Utilization is over 70%, wingtips added 3% fuel efficiency, plus slightly slower fights, and many older aircraft where retired during the spike in fuel prices. Average fuel consumption in 2014 was 75 mpg‑US per passenger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
- ams6110 9y agoI'm not suggesting driving instead of flying. I'm saying don't travel, which is a net reduction in fuel burned, regardless of one's daily commute situation.
- dominotw 9y agohaving kids is worse. I suggest not procreating.
- andai 9y agoMan, you guys are no fun at all.
- funtodeath 9y agowhat could be more fun than turning the earth into a smoking pit of despair to chase a few dopamine drips and satisfy evolutionary urges that are no longer adaptive?
- ekianjo 9y agoErm no, since you don'r fly a plane for 5 miles usually. Plane flights are by nature long distance and consume way more than your yearly car consumption even if you have a 2 hours commute every day.
- Retric 9y agoSure, but it is reasonable to consider a long trip vs a longer commute in terms of lifestyle and environmental costs. At which point you care about total fuel costs not direct equivalency. 747 burns approximately 5 gallons of fuel per mile and holds 568 people. They are over 70% full on average which works out to: 568 x .7+ / 5 ~= 80+ MPG. At the equator the world is 24,901 miles ~= 300 gallons at worst though most most people consider around the world to be US > EU > Asia > US which is shorter than that. Edit: US average is 75mpg per passenger in 2014 though longer trips are above that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft On the other hand at 3 gallons (which is far from extreme) / day x 48 x 5 = 720 gallons ignoring all other driving. PS: On top of that for longer trips aircraft tend to take more direct routes. You can't just drive from NY to LA on a strait line which significantly reduces cars effective MPG.
- rdlecler1 9y agoTo each his own.
- barrkel 9y agoLack of travel leads to insularity and alienation, with potentially catastrophic geopolitical effects.
- ekianjo 9y agoYes and No. Most of pre-and-during-WW2 leaders were well traveled, that did not prevent them from murdering each other for a pretty long time. The same can be said for current leaders, even the ones engaged in conflicts.
- barrkel 9y agoIt's not the leaders that need travel, it's the people who obey orders to harm people that are just like themselves.
- sodosopa 9y agoYes, stay in your cave. Make Ogg less comfortable around those not like Ogg.