This map made me realize how small Great Britain really is. I drive 550 miles to visit my mom in the US, Great Britain is only 600 miles long from north to south.
This weekend I drove over 500 miles to get to the Oregon coast from a neighboring state of which I live close to the border. The total distance I traveled could have taken me from Spain into France then into to Italy and then end up in like Switzerland or Austria or Slovenia or something. Could see Barcelona, Marseille, Florence, Milan, Zurich, but instead I saw hundreds of miles of nothing and then the Pacific ocean lol.
A while back someone posted a meteor sim type web experience thing where you were given a map of the world and some settings where you could adjust the size, density, material, speed, angle and impact site of a meteor and then get shown what would happen.
I dropped a Texas sized iron meteor at the max speed it went up to directly on a hotel in the downtown area of my city and got some circles like this. My home was juuuuuust on the outside of them, and I thought “Huh. I guess we’d be fine then.”
Nope. That was just the size of the hole it would make. There was a next tab showing the explosion and it basically covered the entire United States, Mexico and most of Canada. lol
Man Europe is hilariously small! Don’t get me wrong, it’d love to abandon the US and live there. It’s just mind blowing the perspective this map gives.
I had a german professor once remark to me about how different Americans are, like hundreds of miles is a day trip, hundreds of miles is a week long trip by car. Bet the trains are awesome though. Amtrak long distances seems way too expensive relative to my other options when factoring in time.
Your professor said it the best way possible. I’ll remember that saying to help explain it all in the future if needed to others.
I had a professor who loved Amtrak and would talk about his travels every month or so. He mentioned the price too as an issue. I definitely want to experience a train ride on Amtrak one day on an overnight trip.
A 1000 mile radius does cover a chunk of the US. Centered on Denver it covers basically everything west of Michigan (excl Alaska and Hawaii of course).
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