"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
08/10/2019 at 20:55 • Filed to: None
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"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
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From Wikipedia:
A stagecoach traveled at an average speed of about 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h), with the average daily mileage covered being around 60 to 70 miles (97 to 113 km). !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
I tell y’all those were the days!
wafflesnfalafel
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/10/2019 at 21:42 |
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I love that I can regularly travel several times as fast as the very fastest person did in 1880.
facw
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/10/2019 at 21:59 |
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Hmm, this got me thinking of the “shrinking” of the world, which is really quite amazing. I’ve already brought up “
Holy shit! Airplanes!
” once today, but the speed of transit would be unimaginable to pretty much anyone not born in the last two centuries. This got me thinking about
Around the World in Eighty Days
, which of course presented an 80 day world trip as amazingly fast, though of course painfully s
low today (looks like the fastest non-orbital circumnavigation was done by a Concorde in just under 33 hours, though one wonders if a military aircraft could do it faster with aerial refueling
). It also made me think doing a round the world trip could be a fun, if somewhat shallow
and expensive
vacation.
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> facw
08/10/2019 at 22:04 |
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It’s really amazing, I can average 75 mph in a car and 500+ in an airplane. Distances less than 2000 miles can be handled in a few hours.
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facw
> wafflesnfalafel
08/10/2019 at 22:30 |
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Yep if W ikipedia is to be trusted, it was 190 4 before anyone in the world topped 100mph (possibly excluding human cannonballs or something? ) , and nearly ever new car in the US can manage, while your standard jetliner will do 500+, and the Concorde could do 1,300+.
ttyymmnn
> facw
08/10/2019 at 22:44 |
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If you haven’t seen this, watch it.
Around the World in 80 Days is a great book. It’s part adventure, part travelogue, part advertisement for the the British Empire.
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> wafflesnfalafel
08/11/2019 at 00:31 |
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Trains were a thing back then, but it still took a week or more to cross the US on a trsin.
Berang
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
08/11/2019 at 02:21 |
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Trains were definitely a thing in the 1880s. While in the U.S. train speeds remained relatively slow (even expresses averaged only around 25mph) in England it was a different story, with some trains averaging 60mph by the 1880s, and top speeds nearing 90. Look up the Race to t he North for some exciting V ictorian record setting.