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irenedirks Casual Observer
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 87 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: 1500 miles = ??? KM???? |
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how many kilometers are 1500 miles???
sorry but I can't think in miles... |
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Inigo Devoted Fan
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 849 Location: Someplace Iīd not rather be
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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2415 Km
1 Mile equals 1600 Metres, or 1.6 Kilometrers. |
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irenedirks Casual Observer
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 87 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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oh thank
yes I just looked it up myself
1 mile = 1,6093km
so 1500 miles = 2413,95 km
and I also found another cool fact
the border around my country (The Netherlands) is 1027 km
so making the distance of DBJ would be like walking around my country for 2,35 times!!!
and it's also more than driving from amsterdam to moscow because that's only 2014 km
so that really is a LOT!!!!
USA is so much bigger than I can understand
the longest drive I ever made was to vienna and that took all day
and the longest trainride was to Prague and that took an afternoon and full night
so halfway into russia is realyreallyreally farfar away!!! |
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sack36 Devoted Fan
Joined: 09 May 2007 Posts: 549
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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It takes three days to travel from california to new york if you don't stop for sleep and food. I've done this.
It takes a full week to travel from new york to california if you do stop for sleep and food. I've done this too.
It takes 18 hours to drive from tacoma, washington to where Jonas lives.
It takes 24 hours to drive from tacoma to where the Creators live.
It takes 2 1/2 days to go from where jonas lives to where julie lives.
I've done all these, too. But here's the kicker: you can't drive from one end of the united states to the other! Hawaii is our farthest state and that's an island. Guam is our farthest territory and that's nearly around the globe from Main, the state farthest away from it! _________________ H of SSJF -- Shhhhhh!!!
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nowherepixie Owen's Helper
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1633 Location: Birmingham, England
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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We drove from London to Southern Italy once and it took two days. I thought that was immense.
America is mahoosive! |
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RedRevolver Devoted Fan
Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 563
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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You didn't sleep for 3 days whilst driving?! That's pretty dangerous.
Uhhhh, and you're right. But I prefer to think in miles. Imperial, FTW.
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nowherepixie Owen's Helper
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1633 Location: Birmingham, England
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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It was weird, at school we are taught in cm km etc and kg and g but everything, eg road signs are in miles.
This country makes no sense! |
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allisonjenna Casual Observer
Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 107
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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sack36 wrote: |
It takes 18 hours to drive from tacoma, washington to where Jonas lives.
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...it only took me 14 hours to drive from Federal Way to SF, and that's with stopping for food and all that. |
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Inigo Devoted Fan
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 849 Location: Someplace Iīd not rather be
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool. |
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RedRevolver Devoted Fan
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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nowherepixie wrote: | It was weird, at school we are taught in cm km etc and kg and g but everything, eg road signs are in miles.
This country makes no sense! |
Indeed it don't!
I know, it is kind of weird thinking about it.
But most of my maths teachers in the past have commented on it, and how they don't really understand why it isn't taught as one whole, instead of bits, but that it doesn't really matter. _________________ KateModern or we eat YOUR children.
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irenedirks Casual Observer
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 87 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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I remember when I was in Cuba there were a lot of people from Canada and this woman was telling about how she had to drive for 8 hours to go to an airport where she took a plane to fly to another airport where another plane took her to Cuba
I bursted out 8 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thatīs like driving to Paris!!!!! (and back almost!!!)
(it took me only 14 hours in total!!!)
thatīs almost three times the whole time it takes to drive trough the Netherlands
I could take the train to amsterdam almost 6 times!!!!
so like I said for me distances are so weird comparing to other countries
there are lakes as big as NL in Canada
there is a wildlife park as big as NL in south africa
but on the other hand living in Europe is kind of special
in Australia for example you can drivedrivedrive for hours and hours and you're still in the same country same scenery and same kind of people
and here you drive for a few hours and it's a different country , language, people history landscape
everything is different
so that's rather nice actually
I can never quite understand why a lot of european people boast all the time of how far they have travelled whilst they haven't seen hardly anything in Europe at all!!!
maybe it's the same for Americans
always saying they're going to travel through europe and never been outside their own state!!! (or hardly) |
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irenedirks Casual Observer
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 87 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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sack36 wrote: |
I've done all these, too. But here's the kicker: you can't drive from one end of the united states to the other! Hawaii is our farthest state and that's an island. Guam is our farthest territory and that's nearly around the globe from Main, the state farthest away from it! |
ha that's a cool fact!!!
well for NL that's also true you can't drive to Aruba or the Antill's!!
(but that's not exactly called the same country, just the same kingdom) |
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Haether Lonely Fan
Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 230 Location: DC area
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | and here you drive for a few hours and it's a different country , language, people history landscape |
Yeah, driving through the US is almost the same experience. I grew up in Virginia (near Washington, DC) and went to college in Ohio. It was like moving to another country...they practically speak another language (and a lot slower, dammit). The west coast and the east coast are amazingly different. _________________ ---
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allisonjenna Casual Observer
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Inigo wrote: | over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool. |
Haha. Yea, I went from where I live now (Central coast) to Seattle by train... it was supposed to be 35 hours...
it ended up being 50 hours.
Two derailments and a bomb threat |
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RedRevolver Devoted Fan
Joined: 11 May 2007 Posts: 563
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Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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allisonjenna wrote: | Inigo wrote: | over 24 hours by Train from San Francisco to Seattle... longest single trip of my life. But extremely cool. |
Haha. Yea, I went from where I live now (Central coast) to Seattle by train... it was supposed to be 35 hours...
it ended up being 50 hours.
Two derailments and a bomb threat |
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