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20 million meters is indeed about the maximum distance between any two points on Earth.
by School-Cotton 5y ago
20 million meters is indeed about the maximum distance between any two points on Earth.
- mcv 5y agoAlong the surface. Otherwise it's about 12 million meters.
- School-Cotton 5y agoTrue! I assumed they were using the distance on the surface here, not the path tunneling through the interior.
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- JoachimS 5y agoIt also depends on the direction. The earth is bulging at the equator (or getting flatened pole to pole) due to rotation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_bulge