I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+ hangouts

Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by brnstz on Sunday July 07, 2013 @06:25PM (#6003842)

Imagine if an American said he was going across the "world" from New York to California.

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Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by mljlive on Sunday July 07, 2013 @06:28PM (#6003855)

I think you're getting the words, 'Across' and 'Around' mixed up.

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Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by williamcotton on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:31PM (#6004070)

If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :)

It makes for a much better headline than "Man attempts to walk across the largest section of the earth that you can."

And also, to "walk across" sort of implies you only need to do half of it.

I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar opposite on the sphere?

(too "tired to check" should also imply "too tired to post comment", but oh well. it already is resulting in "too tired to properly edit")

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Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by jere on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:08PM (#6004228)

>If one were to attempt to "walk across the world", this would be about as close as they could get. :)

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I've sometimes fantasized about walking around the world and the best you could do in theory is about 10x the distance from New York to California: South America to West Africa (assuming you can cross a frozen Bering Strait). That's 20,000 miles. In reality, you'd probably face insurmountable political and legal difficulties with crossing borders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Human-powered

The 9,000 miles Michael Lee Johnson is attempting is pretty impressive. I've got a lot of respect for this guy for trying.

>I'm too tired to check, but Internet, is there any continuos stretch of land that connects one point on earth to it's polar opposite on the sphere?

Yes! I believe so, based on what I said previously. Here are some tools to get you started:

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/antipode-map/

http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calcu...

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Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by threeseed on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:35PM (#6004327)

There are hundreds of people who have visited every country on the world.

It definitely isn't an insurmountable challenge.

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Re:I quit my job to walk across the world doing live Google+... by incompatible on Sunday July 07, 2013 @09:23PM (#6004514)

I imagine you could do slightly better. Maybe from the edge of Siberia to the south of Spain, or Singapore to the north of Norway. Walking to London has a big obstacle in the way, the English Channel. I'm not sure how he intends to deal with that.

Edit: D'oh, you could probably do much better by ending at South Africa.

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