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At an avg speed of 34.9 mph, or 54.2 km/h. Impressive!
by tudorconstantin 5y ago
At an avg speed of 34.9 mph, or 54.2 km/h. Impressive!
- Y_Y 5y agoLaden or unladen?
- werdnapk 5y agoGonna have to lean towards laden as the bird was carrying a tracker.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoWeighing 5 grams.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThat beats a coconut by a factor of 200.
- danw1979 5y agoI don’t see how this is relevant considering the bird is neither European or African and didn’t stop in either continent during its migration.
- rudian 5y agoSorry this isn’t the argument department.
- danw1979 5y agoYes it is.
- OneTimePetes 5y agoThis is not a argument, this is just contradiction.
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- smirutrandola 5y agoWell, that was faster than my last shipment. Next time I'll send through a pigeon.
- mirekrusin 5y agoWait a second, how sure are we that the bird was not chillin on cargo ship?
- dredmorbius 5y agoUnless it was an aircraft carrier, unlikely. The bird's average speed is 33 mph (29 knots). Cargo vessels tend to cruise at about 18-25 knots, and many move more slowly. There's little direct traffic between Alaska and Australia. Shipping lines are visible through their emissions trails, as in this Nullschool link showing NO2 concentrations, from May of this year. The long lines are shipping lanes. You'll note these from Panama to New Zealand, tracking along the Western US coast and Alaska along the Great Circle route to Japan and China, and past Papua New Guinea, among other notable routes: https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/05/01/1300Z/chem/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=no2/orthographic=-176.25,-1.81,448/loc=145.072,-5.107 https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/05/01/1300Z/chem/surface/... The data recorders would also likely note any marked variations in travel speed or direction. Again, ships tend not to cover the routes flown by Godwits.