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Holland has so much space (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

If you drive the border of Texas it is a trip more than 40 hours long. Two straight days of non-stop driving. The US is stupid big and has an insane amount of roadways, you could drive your whole life and have roads you have never been on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Haha. Two days. Tiny. Itty bitty state. Not even as big as New South Wales.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This has me curious about the extremes of the relationship between perimeter length and area of various states. Time to go down a YouTube rabbithole I think, stand up maths probably has something on it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

13 hour drive that’s like Kansas pfff lol. At least it feels like 14 hours every time I drive across it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I'm reasonably sure that that route neither begins nor ends in Holland. I think Holland is the western area of the Netherlands, not the northernmost bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now I want to know how long it would take to circumnavigate other countries and states in a leaderboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Starting with Russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

>13hrs from Pensacola, FL to Key West, FL. 832 mi / 1340 km

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In about a century it'll be quite a bit smaller than it is now, meaning that 13 hours it takes to drive the Nether- I mean Holland would become... I'm guessing 10 hours (I have no idea how to calculate stuff like this myself, so please downvote this comment if I'm too far away from the correct answer)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's about twice the size of New Jersey ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I mean if you take your time and cherry pick it, you might be able to touch 5 or six states in the trip.

Using texas as scale was funny, but you could fit that entirely in most states pretty easily.

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