> but was a million miles from Hollywood. According to > https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+Le+Mars%2C+Iowa+to+hollywood https://www.wolframalpha.c

> but was a million miles from Hollywood. According to > https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+Le+Mars%2C+Iowa+to+hollywood https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+Le+Mars%2C+Iow... the distance between Le Mars, Iowa and Hollywood is rather 2152 km (1337 miles). Even without having this computation result: the perimeter of the earth is about 40.000 km (the meter was originally defined to be (EDIT) 1/(40*10^9)-th of the perimeter of the earth), so using the length of geodesics on the earth surface as a metric, no two points on the earth surface are farther apart than about 20.000 km.