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29.4 Billion miles and I'm not even tired...

Posted by howie (aka howie) Jul 2 '10, 19:24

LYC - I was bored.

I just had a birthday and I wondered how far I've travelled in all those years - planetarilly speaking.

Some of the figures are approximate, but the total should be close.

I found the latitudes for the three cities I've spent most of my life and averaged them. The I found the circumference of the earth at that average latitude. I used that as the distance I've travelled on an average day. I multiplied that by 365.25 for each year (.25 for leap years) to get my annual distance. Multiplied that by my age.

Then I took the approximate distance of the Earth's orbit around the sun times my age, added it to my terrestrial distance and that came out to a total of 29,491,555,662 miles.

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you still don't qualify for a first class upgrade -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 2, 19:42
how many days old are you? -- nm - peglegpete Jul 2, 19:29 6
- way too many... - howie Jul 2, 19:36 5
  - hey, happy milestone birthday!! :) - -- nm - b! Jul 2, 21:33 4
    - yep. I guess it beats the alternative. (nm) - howie Jul 2, 21:35 3
      - totally. - b! Jul 2, 21:38 2
        
        yeah, I made it past more than a few hurdles. But here I am (nm) - howie Jul 2, 21:44 1
        
        :) - -- nm - b! Jul 2, 21:45

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