Google Maps to the rescue!
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How about a nice trip to Europe, say... to Amsterdam?
Check out how Google Maps plans your trip at step 32. At least its environmentally friendly.
Google Rocks!
Oh,btw: Hi (td)wtf people =)
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*wipes tears from eyes*
I love Google.
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I'd already seen this as a new-york to london search. Interestingly it decides to go via france, going past england to get there, then turning round and going back.
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Thats cool. I like how it has found a suitable place to get out of the sea!
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well that certainly beats any of the frontpage 1's....swimmin cross an ocean.../me dfroflmao
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the best bit is how it just slips it in there like it's perfectly normal
32: swim across ocean
33: slight right at E05Well that's all the detail that I need!
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Starting from Tampa, FL uses the same leg. Evidently they hard-coded Boston-to-Le-Havre as a "road".
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Well at least Google Traffic can tell you if the route is congested! I wouldn't want to try that at rush hour, no siree.
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Jesus, reading step 32: "Amateurs."
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Check out http://moon.google.com
Make sure to zoom in fully to see all of the detail.
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I've tried this before, but using St John's, Newfoundland instead of San Diego. It still took me back through Boston to swim over.
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Also, queries that cross the ocean without touching the american continent get rejected with an "can't process". Still, roflmao...
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Is it considered news? I bump into it almost every day. I'm living in the UK and it seems pretty much every town has a counterpart in the US. And because I'm from Hungary and I don't know the map of UK very well, I use Google Maps to find out where the clients I'm supposed to meet are. So I enter something like Birmingham or Chelmsford... and then get this swim over the ocean bullshit, *sigh*, and enter "Birmingham, UK", or "Chelmsford, UK".
You yank's really should be more creative about naming your towns :-)))
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Hmm, is that trip to New York really worth it:
(step 37)
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At least they're accurate albeit pretty darned optimistic about a person's swimming skills to fit it all in at just 31 days. Fastest Human Swimmer = 5.05 miles/hr. would take about 28.85 continuous days of non-stop, 24-hour max-speed swimming to make the distance. Talk about endurance - but don't mention any hurricanes or bermuda triangles that may be in the way. The rest of the trip averages to about 47miles/hr driving, which with the twists and turns of the European driving, probably is accurate.
My one peave is that they never account for getting gas or beer or food or pissers during the drive. We're not all robots, ya know!
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@Mal1024 said:
Hmm, is that trip to New York really worth it:
(step 37)
Don't forget your toll money - swimming with roll of quarters anyone? (step 54)