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With the advent of air travel most of these geographically distant places are less than 24 hours away.
by mantap 7y ago
With the advent of air travel most of these geographically distant places are less than 24 hours away.
- roel_v 7y ago... That can still make them distant? Is Australia less 'distant' from Europe now that it takes 24 hours instead of 6 weeks to get there? In some senses, yes, but not in the sense that the GP used 'distant' (i.e., as a objective word for 'not adjacent').
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- dtornabene 7y agoand then it loses all meaning, because a pathogen that can travels within people who travel on planes is a pathogen unconstrained by geography. It was a very odd, and frankly, telling turn of phrase.