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Approximately how many miles do you travel in a year?
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Geotti on Thursday April 30 2015, @07:39PM
You saw that one coming... Anyway,
do you mean nautical miles, Roman miles, US miles, Italian miles, Chinese miles?
I travel around 50-100k kilometers and I don't know which option to choose, especially, if you meant Li [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Disagree) by LoRdTAW on Friday May 01 2015, @02:14AM
Just ... stop.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday May 01 2015, @06:28PM
I think they mean the ones on your odometer.
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday May 01 2015, @07:49PM
I don't have an odometer. And if I had one, it wouldn't show miles.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday May 05 2015, @03:36PM
Really? How od.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @12:36PM
You know what mile the article was referring to, the standardized mile. Roman, Italian and Chinese miles along with just about every other mile are dead units.
Of course there is the nautical mile which is standardized but it is never used for general measurement by anyone. Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
Dont be a douche.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:32PM
Not once has anyone ever said "I live 5 miles from the nearest train station" follow by someone asking "nautical or regular?"
That depends if that conversation happened on a boat somewhere in the open sea after months of adventures...
Dont be a douche.
I'm just following in the long tradition of nitpickers and nitpickeresses of such polls. Just imagine smiling irony tags hovering around my post, take it easy and you can become a pollpicker too. ;)
(Score: 2) by aclarke on Thursday April 30 2015, @08:02PM
I'll assume that the question is relative to my spot on the planet.
Apple's Dashboard says that I've walked an average of 6.23km per day over the past 30 days (total: 2300km)
I probably travel 12,000-13,000 per year by car.
I probably fly 15,000 km per year.
Total: 29,800km
Converting into odd regional measurement and reducing to two significant digits: 19,000 miles.
I ran out of interest before accounting for cycling, skiing, etc.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Thursday April 30 2015, @08:13PM
does daily commute count?
does my travel to the bathroom count?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:25PM
Does the revolution of earth around the sun count?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday May 01 2015, @04:48AM
Does the thermal vibration if my molecules count? How about the distance my electrons orbit their nuclei?
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(Score: 3, Touché) by _1156277 on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:09AM
Electrons don't actually orbit.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday April 30 2015, @10:35PM
This question got me trying to add my various forms of travel, and I figure it would be an interesting future poll question as to what is your most utilized method of transit (by distance).
For me it is aeroplane:
Automobile ~15 000km
Aeroplane ~30 000km
Bicycle ~500km
Foot ~100km (very rough estimate)
Swimming ~0.5km
Watercraft ~10km
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 16 2015, @06:54PM
300m per day by foot? Are you disabled by any chance?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday April 30 2015, @11:24PM
Ooops, I read it as km to start with, should have been in the 100-200 barrier.
It varies by year. This year I've flown 48,775, with another 32327 booked until the end of june. That puts me on 160k for the year, slightly more than last year, but less than the year before.
Car puts on about 20kmiles a year, and then train for about 12kmiles, and others would be under 1200miles. So that's about 190,000 this year, about 170,000 last year, and 210,000 the year before.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday April 30 2015, @11:55PM
I drive a car like most normal people here, and in San Diego those without the luxury of living near where they work may drive between 20-30 thousand miles for the daily work commute alone.
Here in San Diego people who can ride their bikes to work are called Douche-bikers, because in the North of San Diego they are middle and C-level managers with dickhead helmets and bumblebee spandex. In the South and Central areas of San Diego, they are hipsters riding bikes with no brakes while on the way to their jobs making coffee for Starbucks. And in the East of San Diego, people riding bikes are criminals who just jacked a 12-pack from the liquor store or a few bottles of pills from the local pharmacy.
The geography and layout of San Diego is extremely hostile to cyclists if they live and work in different areas -- we have a "star" topology rather than a big grid-like structure, so they generally live close to where they work if they can ride their bikes to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2015, @03:20PM
Oh crap, you live in S.D.? Time to move.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday May 08 2015, @10:00AM
The geography and layout of San Diego is extremely hostile to cyclists
My impression from a couple of visits was that the geography of San Diego is pretty hostile to everyone. It seems to be designed such that nowhere you are is allowed to be less than 20-30 minutes drive (more in traffic) away from where you want to be. I'm amazed that anyone who lives there spends any time outside of the car at all. If it weren't for the climate, I suspect you'd all have left long ago.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @01:38AM
Miles? The rest of the world somehow managed to learn to use and adapt the metric system, even England managed. How does it feel to be the last bastion of a archaic system?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cmn32480 on Friday May 01 2015, @01:41AM
It feels good. We have always been non-conformists.
Get over it.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @10:00AM
Non-conformists? Surely you mean conservatives, stuck in the old ways. (The observant amongst you will notice that this is not a question.)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday May 06 2015, @07:14AM
Non-conformists?
Then go ahead and make up your own language, and stop (ab)using english.
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(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:16PM
Hudling brakd, nor hoewdusw to you too!
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(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday May 21 2015, @08:10PM
We're EVOLVING english, just like most of Europe is speaking evolved latin.
(Score: 2, Funny) by yarp on Friday May 01 2015, @03:48PM
Metric system?!
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
(Score: 5, Informative) by TK on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:30PM
40 rods = 0.13 mi = 0.20 km
1 hogshead = 63 gal = 240 l
So that's just under 12 feet per gallon, or 0.83 meters per liter.
Old Grandpa Simpson may be stuck in his ways, but that may be because he's stuck in his driveway.
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Monday May 04 2015, @12:35AM
Aren't there browser extensions to keep you from seeing these legacy units, or at least show a conversion?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by theluggage on Thursday May 07 2015, @11:10PM
even England managed.
Not very well - although imperial is pretty much extinct in science and engineering, I'm afraid we still "officially" use miles for journey distances and mph for car speedometers (I guess nobody wants to replace all the signs) petrol is sold by the litre, but people still quote fuel consumption in miles per gallon) and many conservative types unofficially cling to other imperial measures when ordering their potato's (apostrophe abuse intentional).
Of course, that said, selling ale by any other measure than a pint is an abomination.
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday May 08 2015, @10:03AM
Of course, that said, selling ale by any other measure than a pint is an abomination.
Assuming that we're talking real pints, and not undersized US pints, of course. 550ml is not too far off and is a fairly common 'metric pint'. It's about 3% smaller, but you can probably spill 3% trying to carry the round back to your table in a proper pint...
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday May 12 2015, @07:36PM
With metric you can order a liter. Bonus is your typing sticks get some weight-lifting practice.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Friday May 01 2015, @03:23PM
Doubt I have ever been over 10,000 miles in a calendar year. I walk to work unless the weather is totally horrible most days which allows us to be a one car family.
But because I don't believe the right things I'm a horrible person... am told this repeatedly by people who fly regularly, commute 20K per year so they can live in CA with the insane 'anti-sprawl' laws preventing building housing where the jobs insist on remaining, and generally have such a massive footprint they are guilt tripped into supporting green policies even more unsustainable than their current lifestyle.
Curious.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 02 2015, @01:00PM
So walking to work somehow makes the distance to your work place shorter?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Monday May 04 2015, @07:46PM
I think his point is that he has to live very close to his job in order to be able to walk. (Probably less than three miles/4.8 kilometers, which would be about an hour's worth of walking.)
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(Score: 1) by FrenziedEngi on Friday May 01 2015, @04:27PM
Distance or displacement?
Pretty sure I woke up in the same bed on New Year's Day two years in a row.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2015, @03:10PM
Sounds like you're doing New Year's Eve wrong, then.
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Tuesday May 05 2015, @06:31PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2015, @11:54PM
I'm pretty sure I woke up on the same continent on New Year's Day two years in a row.
(Score: 2) by microtodd on Friday May 01 2015, @07:50PM
Better options might have been:
100
101 - 1,000
1,001 - 10,000
10,001 - 50,000
50,001 - inf
I never leave my basement
(Score: 2) by dltaylor on Saturday May 02 2015, @08:07AM
But I traveled 10,000.5. What do I select?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:57PM
I would be exceptionally impressed if somebody traveled exactly 20k miles and knew they traveled exactly 20k miles.
(Score: 2) by soylentsandor on Friday May 01 2015, @09:06PM
Car: ~3000km
Bicycle: ~2300km
Walking: ~100km (very crude approximation)
Ferry: ~2km (long-year average)
Train: ~10km (long-year average)
Other: 0
Total: ~5500km or ~3000mi
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Friday May 01 2015, @11:16PM
Yeah, but your office chair probably at least doubles that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @09:25PM
If you count all modes of transportation, I've had years in the lowest category and years in the highest category.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Monday May 04 2015, @06:21AM
What is this "miles" thingie you are polling about? How many rod of cord [wikipedia.org] is that?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JeanCroix on Tuesday May 05 2015, @01:13PM
(Score: 2) by TK on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:35PM
Relatively relevant XKCD [xkcd.com].
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:52PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Wednesday May 06 2015, @03:00PM
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday May 06 2015, @09:21PM
I think it would be interesting to qualify for the last two options.
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(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday May 08 2015, @08:58PM
I live in California! We don't have basements, you insensitive clod! Now, if you had said bomb shelter that would have been different. If only I had one of those. I wouldn't have to wear my tin foil hat.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bart9h on Tuesday May 12 2015, @01:48PM
How many miles does this poll have to run before a new one shows up?
I never ceased to annoy me how long the polls lasted on the other site, and I had some hope that it would be better here.
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Sunday May 17 2015, @04:11PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 18 2015, @09:58PM
Right now I would travel a couple of km for a new poll....