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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Meh... You can drive 13hrs in Australia and not see another person.

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Australia enters the chat,

Oi, mate, 13 hours to cross a state, that's cute.

1000025196

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It's not the same, you're using metric hours. :)

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Hahahahahaha, you made me spit my coffee, take my upvote

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

To be fair days are different: metric day is always 86400 seconds long while UTC day is 86399-86401 seconds long.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 10 points 7 months ago

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good to see another Aussie pointing out that WA is Bigger than Texas!

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean in fairness Australia is a whole ass country

Edit: today I learned Australia also has states :)

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ahh, okay. I didn't look at the picture very closely; I had no idea Australia had states! Nifty

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah..! Just not 50 of them,

6 states and 2 internal territories (baby states)

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

Oh so cute! Is that why we hesitate to give them any autonomy?

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Think its second only to a massive Russian state

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

What about North South whales?

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you think that Australia is huge, you should play with navigation in Russia.

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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..!

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Most remote destinations in Russia is not driveable at all.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Depends on what state you choose. There may be no road between destinations at all.

[–] Rogers@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same goes for Alaska/Canada/Russia/China. This meme must have been made by stereotypical self centered texan lmao

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah, you can fit Texas 4.5 times into Yakutia in Russia.