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I remember flying to Munich once from Cape Town and a German colleague guessed the flight was three to four hours. I said no, it was over eleven hours and he wa
by dominicjj 5y ago
I remember flying to Munich once from Cape Town and a German colleague guessed the flight was three to four hours. I said no, it was over eleven hours and he was shocked. I laughed and told him to check out a globe sometime - not a map - so he could trace for himself how massive Africa really is. The surface area of the moon is only 20% larger.
- coyotespike 5y agowhoa, now there's a statistic for you!
- bombcar 5y agoAsia is 17.21 million mi² - and the moon is 14.6 million mi².
- wolfram74 5y agoAnd, according to a very literal reading of 1917 Catholic law, under the jurisdiction of the diocese of orlando. https://aleteia.org/2018/08/03/yes-the-moon-has-its-own-catholic-bishop/ https://aleteia.org/2018/08/03/yes-the-moon-has-its-own-cath... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Orlando#Notes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Orla...
- mgerullis 5y agoHa, in 3-4 hours you may be in Cairo at best
- Gibbon1 5y agoIf you leave Cairo in a Taxi after 3-4 hours you'll still be in Cairo.
- mgerullis 5y agoStuck on 6th of October bridge
- dominicjj 5y agoAfter four hours, you're still flying over the Congo and haven't even crossed the equator yet.
- vishnugupta 5y agoI got curious and looked at a non-Mercator map and it seems Cairo is 7-8hrs away. Damn, Africa is huge. Interestingly India got separated from African continent. West cost of India snugly fits on the right edge of The Horn of Africa. India collided with the larger Asian land mass resulting in the formation of the Himalayan mountain range. It’s fun to think about that the western coastal mountains of India are much older than the northern mountains! Geography is lot of fun!!