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It's plausible. The moon's width is 2,158.8 miles, and I could imagine an explorer being >3000 miles from another human
by soarfourmore 6y ago
It's plausible. The moon's width is 2,158.8 miles, and I could imagine an explorer being >3000 miles from another human
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoI'm too lazy to do the math, but what's the point-to-point distance (through the planet) of points that are 5000km along the surface?
- banana_giraffe 6y agoAssuming a spherical earth, it's 4873 km.
- foobar1962 6y agoAssuming a spherical earth in a vacuum... One of the few times that simplifying assumption matches reality.
- kelnos 6y agoNot quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.
- dylan604 6y agoHow far is it if you assume a flat earth?
- hulahoof 6y ago5000km
- Igelau 6y agoThe actual travel distance would be further because you can't just bore through the moon.