Gotta love the safety harnesses they are wearing. Damn.
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I’m staying and asking for seconds!
Had my mask painted
Curiosity got the best of me.
I dug around, if someone can walk directly around the circumference of the earth, non-stop at 3.1 mph it will take 335 days.
Doing this with the sun would take a little over 100 years, assuming no breaks for anything.
It appears that the fastest legit (documented, accepted by the WRA) circumnavigation is held by Tom Denniss who went 26,232km (16,300 miles) in 622 days. Because you can't physically walk in a straight line or walk the actual entire thing, that appears to be the accepted "walking around the world" distance.
He had an average of 1.09 mph, which is apparently pretty good.
The circumference of the sun is 2.72m miles, it would take 285 years (nearly) to walk around the sun at that pace.
And Really good footwear...
Like these?
That game was awesome!Had my mask painted
Interest facts. Cool facts, actually. We are so tiny, compared to the sun. Many don't really understand HOW much bigger the sun (our furnace) is.
Here's something to think about:
The sun is about 93 million miles away from us on average. It's got to be huge and incredibly hot in order for us to feel such radiation at that distance. However, in universal terms, our sun is a pretty small, relatively dim star. Check out a star called Stephenson 2-18 for comparison's sake.
Side note: I'm hoping Betelgeuse went supernova 600+ years ago so that we can see it with the naked eye in our lifetimes.
The sun is about 93 million miles away from us on average. It's got to be huge and incredibly hot in order for us to feel such radiation at that distance. However, in universal terms, our sun is a pretty small, relatively dim star. Check out a star called Stephenson 2-18 for comparison's sake.
Side note: I'm hoping Betelgeuse went supernova 600+ years ago so that we can see it with the naked eye in our lifetimes.
I just watched a video that includes Stephenson 2-18. Interesting video.
boingboing.net
The mind-boggling size of the largest known star, Stephenson 2-18 | Boing Boing
How big is Stephenson 2-18, among the largest stars in the known universe? It would take earth’s fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of ligh…
I think I might need an intervention.
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Portable radios. LOL. I've had more than a few of those. We've come a long way. Those are pretty cool.
That's a cool photo. Beautiful country out there in Arizona.
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