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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years 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 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah..! Just not 50 of them,

6 states and 2 internal territories (baby states)

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Think its second only to a massive Russian state

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

What about North South whales?

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

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

[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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..!

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Most remote destinations in Russia is not driveable at all.

[–] Rogers@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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