Hours to walk to Japan from SF?
October 16, 2020 12:33 PM Subscribe
Google will not let me calculate the amount of hours required to walk to Japan from San Francisco (and swimming was not listed as an option, not that I plan to swim). For the purposes of a unique MF meet up, how might I figure out the number of hours it would require to travel from SF to Tokyo if one were able to walk on water?
If one could walk on water, how taxing would it be to walk across an always rolling, sometimes roiling, ocean? An analog might be a trek across the Mojave desert, with the rises and falls and rocks and crevices, except the broken land also moves beneath you.
posted by notyou at 12:44 PM on October 16, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by notyou at 12:44 PM on October 16, 2020 [5 favorites]
Between 15 and 30 miles per day is the ancient metric for moving troops about. Inns or towns were spaced about this far apart on roads as a manageable distance to make it in a day and have somewhere to eat/sleep/etc.
posted by zengargoyle at 2:39 PM on October 16, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by zengargoyle at 2:39 PM on October 16, 2020 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Your guests may appreciate a route map.
(The route looks curved, but it goes straight to Tokyo. It looks curved because the map is Mercator.)
posted by zompist at 2:48 PM on October 16, 2020 [3 favorites]
(The route looks curved, but it goes straight to Tokyo. It looks curved because the map is Mercator.)
posted by zompist at 2:48 PM on October 16, 2020 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Google maps will let you measure the distance from A to B. Right click on SF, the drop down should give you measure distance, click on that, a dot should appear on SF, then click on Tokyo and a line will appear between the two, with a box showing distance. Divide the mile figure by 3 pm figure by 5 to get hours to walk between the two.
posted by biffa at 5:17 PM on October 16, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by biffa at 5:17 PM on October 16, 2020 [5 favorites]
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posted by ambrosen at 12:35 PM on October 16, 2020 [8 favorites]