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Oh, the entire continent is fair game?
Don't make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
I think you'd start in Capetown
It takes three screenshots
Ha ha ha how quickly did you get your moment of realization? Don't worry I am probably the only one who saw what you said.
Lol! I noticed the line wasn't finished in any of the 3 pics. At first I thought it was 3 separate trips :) noticed almost right away after posting. In my defense I was walking at the time!
That spans multiple continents. The pan american highway, if it weren't for a small gap in panama, would be over 20,000 km.
It would have been a continent and a whatever Central America was when I was in school but the younguns nowadays tell me that Central America is included in North America now. And most of South America seems to think that North and South America are all one continent. If we went with that we could make a really long transcontinental path.
Continents are inherently arbitrary and have always been so. We divide north and south America by an impenetrable jungle that even drug smugglers cross by boat. Similarly, for the last few hundred years Europe doesn't think that they can get past the Turks.
Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.
Eurasia is one continent
186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.
Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan:
Route to Magadan is usually longer
OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
https://xkcd.com/2906/
RIP Carl
Someone show this pale blue dot to Isreal, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine, stat! /s
All I'm saying is, if we're comparing data we gotta at least keep the confounding variables consistent. Not that it matters, it's literally a bean meme lol.
I'm not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.
Geology says Eurasia is continent
except that's not the continent, that's all within the EU, which is equivalent to the USA.
The uncomfortable truth is that the US isn't special, and you can't use the size of it to justify things being shit.
The EU is not at all equivalent to the USA. The US federal government has a looot more power than the EU and the states a lot less autonomy than EU countries. Also, culture is more homogeneous across the US than across the EU.
Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land
EU is still smaller
But the main reason the US can't handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can't afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be--especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.
I just learned the Faroe Islands is connecting all their islands (Exploring New Road Tunnels and Power Generation in Faroese Islands). Even to islands that only have 500 people living there.
I don't see why the USA couldn't increase its railway (hell, you can learn from Japan if it needs to be earthquake resistant) starting today.
That's fascinating, and I agree with you. Why the US hates the idea of high-speed rail is beyond me, especially because they prided themselves so much on the rail system they put together earlier in their development. In any case, the US can't do much of anything with its debt-to-GDP as high as it is right now. They can hardly keep from shutting the government down entirely because they won't even agree to a government budget.
Counterpoint: all countries in the European case are in the Schengen area, and you can make the entire journey without ever having to take your passport out of your pocket. The same cannot be said in the American case.
Are there beans in Sagres or Barentshavet?
Yes.
Checkmate, Americans
Oh, y'all wanna do cross continent! Ok
Ok.
That's two continents depending on the geologist you talk to 😂
There isn't really an agreed definition of a continent.
Arguably Afro-Eurasia is all one interconnected continent
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.
Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot..
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.
It’s conceivable as an adventure trip or if a Portuguese wanted to see Northern lights. But I guess the trip NY–LA is way more common.
The States’ population centers are on the far edges of the continent. That’s not the case in Europe, where they’re more evenly distributed.
we also actually have usable train services
Yeah, that makes sense to me!
There's a blog/website about the logistics.
People have certainly done it. You can ship a vehicle around the Darien gap. Or potentially sell one car and buy another one (probably pay some customs duties).
This is shitposting
Oh I was genuinely curious if people drive across Europe like this often.
No they don’t. It’s super far. If one did it would be to move but without paying for a moving service or for some very long road trip like an entire summer
lol you beat me to it: https://i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png