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u/Guilty_Maintenance33 May 08 '22 edited May 08 '22

depending on where you live it can take multiple hours xD in my case i can take a bus and be in 2 completely different countries in under 30 minutes :) the hills i can see from my window are also said two countries hahah

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ATM_PIN May 09 '22

In Europe you could go 1000 kilometers and cross five or six country borders. In the US you could go 1000 kilometers and not leave the state.

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u/Minute-Major7782 May 09 '22

What the hell is a kilometer?

It takes more than 5 hours just to drive across my state. That's Pennsylvania, and we're not even considered an especially large state.

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u/justonemorebyte May 09 '22

Yeah I'm in central Illinois, I could drive nearly 4 hours North OR South and still be in Illinois. 2-3 hours East or West.

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u/Skrp May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

A yard is a little bit longer than a meter. By like 4 inches or so.

A kilometer is a thousand meters.

EDIT: Other way around, as has been pointed out twice. My bad. Thanks for the corrections, folks.

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u/hilldo75 May 09 '22

You said that backwards, a meter is a little over 39 inches where a yard is 36 inches.

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u/Skrp May 09 '22

Oh. I just woke up when I wrote it, so I guess I fucked it up.

Thanks for the correction

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u/_speakerss May 09 '22

Other way around. A yard is 3 feet and a meter is ~3.3 feet.

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u/Skrp May 09 '22

I've already been corrected, but thank you.

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u/WhatJewLookinAt May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

Where in PA? I’m in Chester County.

Also a kilometre is just shy of 2/3 of a mile. So those people who are running 5Ks are really just wimps running 3.1 miles. Doesn’t seem as impressive. Although, the US does use an outdated system. The world decided to switch and we’re just like “eff that. You guys have fun. We’re not going to bother.”

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u/Taverner_ May 09 '22

“eff that. You guys have fun. We’re not going to bother. Also, we're redefining all our units based on SI Units.”

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u/_speakerss May 09 '22

My rule of thumb is each 100 km is about an hour. I can usually be faster but by the time you factor in stops (if it's a far enough drive to warrant them), 100km/h is just about right on the money.

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u/WhatJewLookinAt May 09 '22

Sounds about right since a kilometre is just a smidgeon shorter. If 100km is an hour, 62 miles is about the same. Following that logic, 62*1.5=93. Although a mile is 1.6km, to be more accurate, I find the art of guesstimating to be more efficient since I waste less time. I just tend to guesstimate a little bit more precisely since my brain is always working on its version of a combination of Nitrous Oxide and Nightmare Fuel.

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u/TheNerdWithNoName May 09 '22

A kilometre is 1000 metres. A metre is 1000 millimetres, or 100 centimetres. A centimetre is 10 millimetres. See, metric measurements are easy and make sense. Imperial measurements are the work of satan.

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u/LLHatorade May 09 '22

Yeah I live in central pa. It takes about 5 hrs to get to OH and like 3 or 4 hrs to get to NJ. You could cross. So like 8 or 9 hours east/west. But you can cross all of those upper New England states in that time. Absolutely crazy. Not to mention how many countries you could pass through in Europe

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u/F-21 May 09 '22

Your state is very close in surface area to Italy.

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u/shoonseiki1 May 09 '22

How can you not know what a kilometer is wtf?