The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend

Oh, the entire continent is fair game?

Are there beans in Sagres or Barentshavet?

Checkmate, Americans

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.

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.

Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot..

lol you beat me to it: https://i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png

We do, but only for bullets.

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)

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.

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 :)

It takes me 20 minutes to walk one mile at a normal pace. That would mean walking pretty much the whole 24 hours.

I’m still thinkin about them beans (memes)

Meme bean combeanation…al

It's cause on that route the rails are over/under passes

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.

You’d be going parallel to most railways

Take the L train like everybody else.

Or the E if you’re uptown

To be fair, the US has the better National Parks that one could visit along such a trip. Europe is denser.

You must know some rich Americans. 2 days off of work is quite a bit more expensive than flying.

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.

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? Fuckers. Back to reality, all US politicians are owned by corporations and oppose train infrastructure expansion, and yes, I recognize the main opposition is conservatives. But on this topic quite a few liberals are probably opposing it also, I actually don't know and am speaking from generic observations.

Nonetheless, corporate lobbying is the root cause. Aka legalized corruption.

The reason I highlighted conservatives is because they oppose absolutely anything that costs money (which is everything), and they spend all their efforts banning books/lifestyles/scientific-phrases and well, science and medical advice from science and medicine experts. That's all banned too. But not guns, because "bans don't work," (except in every other civilized first world nation in existence, but wait that doesn't feel good to think about) so conservatives ignore that.

So you know, I guess it's not my fault that I assume Republicans are the root cause to this problem too, since they are the root cause behind most Americans' ills.

For all you "both sides bad" people, great, so introduce ranked choice voting in your state. That would disrupt both conservative and liberal life-long politicians. If you won't do that, when you say "both sides bad" you are actually saying "Republicans aren't that bad".

Ranked choice voting, bitches. Do that shit. Read about how it works before you go ask the people in power and media-shills about it, spoiler, they fucking hate the idea because it would dethrone quite a few of them.

(Shoots AR15 into the air, the traditional American greeting and salutation for departure).

Have a nice day.

1 Season, 15 Episodes; Mr Bean is Eternal.

1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe

You don’t want to hear about how many American football fields are in a mile?

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.

Literally nobody knows

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

That's about 1609 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th of a second.

A mi is one mile in sensible units.

Yes the full can grows in the ground like a potato

It's the "avoid tolls" part. I didn't even know you could have the primary lanes of an interstate be a toll road, but I guess so. TIL.

Bean there, done that

Prophidizzle mah nizzle

Won't somebody help Mr Noone!?