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soarfourmore
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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, has died
It's plausible. The moon's width is 2,158.8 miles, and I could imagine an explorer being >3000 miles from another human
Igelau
on April 28, 2021
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The actual travel distance would be further because you can't just bore through the moon.
cbm-vic-20
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I'm too lazy to do the math, but what's the point-to-point distance (through the planet) of points that are 5000km along the surface?
banana_giraffe
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Assuming a spherical earth, it's 4873 km.
foobar1962
on April 29, 2021
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Assuming a spherical earth in a vacuum... One of the few times that simplifying assumption matches reality.
kelnos
on April 29, 2021
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Not quite; the Earth is an oblate spheroid. Assuming it's a sphere is certainly a close enough approximation for this exercise, though.
dylan604
on April 29, 2021
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How far is it if you assume a flat earth?
hulahoof
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5000km
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