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The US has so much space
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Australia enters the chat,
Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.
It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)
Hahahahahaha, you made me spit my coffee, take my upvote
To be fair days are different: metric day is always 86400 seconds long while UTC day is 86399-86401 seconds long.
You can suck my utus
Funny, we have similar distances in India it seems but with travel times on Google Maps mentioned in days instead of hours thanks to our excellent roads
Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!
Everything's bigger in Texas, except WA that shit is huge...!
Initially I did Kununurra to Eucla which is approx 40hrs, but you can do it in 38 hrs if you go through the territory and SA. In the efforts of keeping things fair and saying in the same state such as the OP, Esperance seemed to prove the point. There's defs longer commutes, but shy of triple seemed to be enough to prove a point.
PS love the username
Kununurra to Eucla is 40 hours, suprisingly it's 3 hours quicker to go through northern territory and south Australia.
Cheers, thought I'd let them know who they're arguing with.
I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country
Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)
You've lost me the USA is a country as well.?
In Aus, we have a state called Western Australia (we're really imaginative with naming,) and its friggin huge...! (Pictured)
Approx 2.6 million km2 Or approx 1 million sq freedom units
Ahh, okay. I didn't look at the picture very closely; I had no idea Australia had states! Nifty
Yeah..! Just not 50 of them,
6 states and 2 internal territories (baby states)
Oh so cute! Is that why we hesitate to give them any autonomy?
Nope, they meant that Texas is supposed to be a country.
Like brexit on steroids, it would be cool to watch. buys a container full of popcorn
Think its second only to a massive Russian state
What about North South whales?
If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.
I did call that out in one of my replies, WA is massive, but Russia has an even bigger state, no idea how easy it is to drive it..!
Depends on what state you choose. There may be no road between destinations at all.
Most remote destinations in Russia is not driveable at all.