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The distance is more than the circumference of the Earth. If you wrapped a rope around the planet at the equator, the length would be around 25k miles.
by Etheryte 11mo ago
The distance is more than the circumference of the Earth. If you wrapped a rope around the planet at the equator, the length would be around 25k miles.
- reliabilityguy 11mo agoSure. However, if the road around the planet goes to Everest and back, the total length of travel will exceed the circumference of the planet.
- lxgr 11mo agoSome roads aren’t perfectly straight (not that this seems like it could explain what happened in this particular case).
- Etheryte 11mo agoThat's fair, but even the commonly cited longest route [0] you could theoretically walk without intentional detours, Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia, is approximately 14k miles. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/a2mcjq/21212_km_from_cape_town_south_africa_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/a2mcjq/21212_km_fr...