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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by lostlogin on Sunday September 08, 2024 @02:57PM (#41482307)
> Almost all of Europe is accessible in a day on a train. Only planes can do that in the US.

The US isn’t that much larger, I don’t think this argument holds. The geography and locations of population centres seem more of an issue.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by ghaff on Sunday September 08, 2024 @07:14PM (#41484059)
Yeah, NYC to Chicago is about 18 hours over a continental divide. You do out west and things get even further. Outside the Northeast corridor and a few other city pairs, train trips are pretty long in the US.

I've been tempted to do at least part of one of the long distance US train routes but I think I'd get pretty bored, I'm guessing the food isn't very good, and I've spent a lot of time out West.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by EricE on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:27PM (#41490158)
"The US isn’t that much larger"

Just search for one of the many pictures of the state (state!) of Texas superimposed over Europe.

The US is freaking huge compared to Europe.

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Re:Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money by lostlogin on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @02:07AM (#41497629)
> The US is freaking huge compared to Europe.

I have compared them, and I don’t see what you’re seeing. Depending on how you measure (do you include European Russia, ie the bit west of the Urals?) Europe is larger.

https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/are-the-usa-and-europe-...

https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/unit...

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