• GiveOver@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    This is meaningless if it drives back on the same roads. “You can drive for 30 hours on a roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire without ever leaving the roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire”

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      8 months ago

      Yeah I can drive for 30 hours and still be in my hometown, in fact, I can spend my entire life there. Crazy

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      8 months ago

      False. You’d have to stop and get gas thereby necessitating that you leave the roundabout in Blackburn

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    8 months ago

    I don’t really think this counts, since he doubles back around at a point, I mean, if you’re allowed to do that, you can drive for 30 hours almost anywhere, and still be in the same area.

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    8 months ago

    It takes 23 hours and 2000 km to drive from the southernmost point in sweden to Abisko in the north.

    A full loop through Malmö-Kalmar-Stockholm-Luleå-Abisko-Östersund-Göteborg-Malmö takes over 2 days and over 4000 km.

    Europe is not small.

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      8 months ago

      Sweden is definitely the exception in EU, that country is crazy “long”, and the geography also makes travel more difficult. You can drive north-south all across Germany in under 10 hours

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      8 months ago

      Lol. Responds to a post about a state by comparing it to a continent.

      A full loop around Jupiter is 70,000 km.

      Jupiter is not small.

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        8 months ago

        The post says “The European mind cannot comprehend this”. The US is barely twice as big as Europe. We have states that are bigger than Michigan.

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        8 months ago

        He’s comparing one state to one country (Sweden) and then adds that Europe is not small, which is fair, because the caption says that the “European” mind can’t comprehend this. Europe as a continent is about as big as the US, the European Union is less than half of the size of the US and the individual countries are of course way smaller than the US. Since the EU has open borders, I’d say that comparing the US to the EU is fair and EU member states can be compared to US states. For example: France is about as large as Texas, Germany about as large as Montana and Italy is comparable to New Mexico. There’s a lot of movement between EU countries and some people cross borders every day to go to work or do groceries. The highway/road just continues without interruption.

        Europe as a continent is meaningless, though, and then you might as well include Asia, as Europe isn’t an actual continent (Eurasia is the worlds largest continent). You could drive all the way to Eastern China if you’d like, but you’d be crossing multiple borders with border control and visa requirements, so that makes it incomparable to driving within the US.

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    8 months ago

    I can drive in my neighbourhood for 40 hours and still be in my neighbourhood. The street forms a loop.