The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
Cannot comprehend miles? Yeah, use a measurement system that makes sense!
The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
Submitted 1 year ago by eugene171@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
fishbone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s so hard to comprehend? 4 inches to a hand, 3 hands to a foot, and 5280 feet to a mile. It’s a straightforward pattern!
(I hope it’s not needed, but this is definitely sarcasm)
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Everybody loves those explicit sarcasm indicators. Really makes the whole joke hit harder.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Statute mile is based on 1000 paces
Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 1 year ago
My mind can’t comprehend those walking and biking numbers. The walking is about 70 miles a day. That’s more than double the average distance of a one day ultra marathon done everyday for a month and a half. The biking distance is about 255 miles a day. Roughly 2.5x the average daily distance for the Tour de France. I want to meet the people who can do that.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Google maps doesn’t account for breaks. They’re assuming you can walk at 3mph, and however much time you need to rest and eat is up to you.
Just like 1 day and 23 hours is only drive time. They’re not accounting for the naps that you will definitely need.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, doing that drive in that time would essentially require at least two people taking shifts driving - or one dangerous madman on some kind of drugs.
FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I believe it’s assuming you’re not taking breaks, in which case I think they’re a bit more reasonable is expected walking speed but perhaps less reasonable in regards to a persons ability to go without sleeping :)
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s why they follow along with the fast track
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It takes me 20 minutes to walk one mile at a normal pace. That would mean walking pretty much the whole 24 hours.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honey, wake up, Lemmy is posting bean memes again!
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’m still thinkin about them beans (memes)
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Meme bean combeanation…al
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The real thing that breaks the Euro mind about this is that you go all that way and cross 3 rails, all quite close together all things considered
#america
jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
if you are on an expressway, and often roads smaller, usually grade crossings are avoided if possible. either the rail is on a bridge, and the road dips under, or the road is on a bridge and crosses the rail. it won’t show as a hazard on the route in either of those cases.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s also insanely inconsistent about showing them depending on zoom level when you look at the same route
I was just making a joke at our piss poor rail systems expense
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s cause on that route the rails are over/under passes
bleachisback@programming.dev 1 year ago
You’d be going parallel to most railways
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try getting from one side of NYC to the other.
Two days is child’s play.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Take the L train like everybody else.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The L train smells funny.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
E doesn’t even go north of 53rd st, not even reaching Central Park and thinking you’re uptown hurts to think about.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
The big difference here is that most Europeans would never make that drive, while an American would cherish it as a holiday.
Duxon@feddit.de 1 year ago
To be fair, the US has the better National Parks that one could visit along such a trip. Europe is denser.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 year ago
Very, very true.
Trollception@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You must know some rich Americans. 2 days off of work is quite a bit more expensive than flying.
JayObey711@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But why does the train take twice as long?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Most railways are privately owned by freight companies which passenger trains must also use. Because of this, freight trains always get priority for using the rail first while passenger trains have to wait for the line to clear before proceeding.
stembolts@programming.dev 1 year ago
47 hours isn’t so bad. I drove San Fran CA to Charlotte NC once and it took 69 hours with stops for sleep included.
But, your core point is still valid, I’ve kinda always wondered that too. I guess the other replyee explained it, freight trains get priority.
To compare a train ride I took once, I took a train from Charlotte NC to Detroit MI and that took 24 hours. The drive is 10 hours.
My takeaway, maybe we should build dedicated rails for hauling people… wait, the auto industry doesn’t want us to have that and lobbies expressly against it? Duckers. Back to reality, all US politicians are owned by corporations.
Which is the root cause.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 year ago
NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 year ago
1 Season, 15 Episodes; Mr Bean is Eternal.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, no idea what a mi is in sensible units.
Squorlple@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
They’ve updated the unit of measurement’s name to Jerhalves.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 year ago
Americans would be more prone to use giraffe halves really, in the normal world there are sensible units of measurement, in the US there aren’t, that’s why the joke.
Subdivide6857@midwest.social 1 year ago
You don’t want to hear about how many American football fields are in a mile?
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
A thousand Roman paces. A pace is two steps, each about 1m, so 1mi is about 2km. The conversion from paces to meters isn’t exact, and definitions have shifted over time.
OpenStars@startrek.website 1 year ago
hakase@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A mi is one mile in sensible units.
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year ago
It’s about 4940686 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th^ of a second.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 year ago
Multiply by Phi (1.6) / the Golden Ratio (still 1.6) to get km.
Typically, this is what you need to know:
100 miles = 160 km 60 miles = 100km
tombruzzo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This farm grows baked beans?
Entropywins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BEANS!!!
Wogi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The selected route has tolls in Kansas. The northern route will be pretty similar but free, at least until Illinois, I’ve never gone beyond that.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s weird that it’s not putting you on I-44 from St Louis to OKC.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ah shit. Here we go with the beans again, unbeanlievable.
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 year ago
!cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
New york city?!?!
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean Eunobean mind.
ReiRose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was prophesied
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The crossover noone needed, but noone needed
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
East coast beans meet west coast beans
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
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Vent@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh, the entire continent is fair game?
5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
except that’s not the continent, that’s all within the EU, which is equivalent to the USA.
The uncomfortable truth is that the US isn’t special, and you can’t use the size of it to justify things being shit.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Counterpoint: all countries in the European case are in the Schengen area, and you can make the entire journey without ever having to take your passport out of your pocket. The same cannot be said in the American case.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are there beans in Sagres?
SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes.
giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Checkmate, Americans
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Oh, y’all wanna do cross continent! Ok Image
popcap200@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Is this something people actually do? I know here in the states we have the cannonball run. I doubt people actually drive the whole route very often.
bleistift2@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s conceivable as an adventure trip or if a Portuguese wanted to see Northern lights. But I guess the trip NY–LA is way more common.
The States’ population centers are on the far edges of the continent. That’s not the case in Europe, where they’re more evenly distributed.
mkwt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a blog/website about the logistics.
People have certainly done it. You can ship a vehicle around the Darien gap. Or potentially sell one car and buy another one (probably pay some customs duties).
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is shitposting
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot…
NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 year ago
lol you beat me to it: i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If we’re staying on land within the Schengen Area, from the sea in southwest Portugal, all the way to just before the Estonian-Russian border at Narva is 2 days. And it’s Schengen the whole way there, so no border checks anywhere on the way.