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[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 76 points 6 months ago
[-] Vent@lemm.ee 76 points 6 months ago

Oh, the entire continent is fair game?

5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 70 points 6 months ago

Oh the entire continent is fair game

Don't make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 42 points 6 months ago

Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I think you'd start in Capetown

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago
[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That spans multiple continents. The pan american highway, if it weren't for a small gap in panama, would be over 20,000 km.

[-] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] odium@programming.dev 11 points 6 months ago

Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Eurasia is one continent

[-] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan:

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Route to Magadan is usually longer

[-] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 46 points 6 months ago

OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago
[-] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Geology says Eurasia is continent

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago
[-] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Are there beans in Sagres or Barentshavet?

[-] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago
[-] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 6 months ago

Oh, y'all wanna do cross continent! Ok

[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago
[-] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago

That's two continents depending on the geologist you talk to 😂

[-] ADTJ@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

There isn't really an agreed definition of a continent.

Arguably Afro-Eurasia is all one interconnected continent

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot..

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

we also actually have usable train services

[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, that makes sense to me!

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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).

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Oh I was genuinely curious if people drive across Europe like this often.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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

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