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It's a white whale in the sky! Where's the petunia?

60 rooms, cruising speed of 280km/h, 3-day circumnavigation of the Earth.

I'm not holding my breath, but I do really want to see this.

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ckd
280 km * 72 hrs = 20,160 km

Circumference of Earth: ~40,000 km

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:41 pm (UTC)

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] da-lj.livejournal.com
Yeah, I was wondering about that also, but- if they claim 3 days, I'll report three days. It's just design drawings at this stage anyhow.

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-tectonic.livejournal.com
It's close enough to being exactly off by a factor of 2 that I think somebody must have made a math error...

Date: Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cypherpunk95.livejournal.com
Perhaps they're just circumnavigating the Arctic circle, which is about that long.

Date: Sunday, 6 January 2008 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychedelicbike.livejournal.com
All the cool stuff is on the arctic circle anyway.

Ba-dum-psh!

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