bluemonkeytri wrote:
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ Quote:
Suppose you started playing the 1988 song by The Proclaimers,
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles). That song is about 131.9 beats per minute, so imagine that with every beat of the song, you move forward more than two miles.
In the time it took to sing the first line of the chorus, you could walk from the Statue of Liberty all the way to the Bronx:
It would take you about two lines of the chorus (16 beats of the song) to cross the English Channel between London and France.
The song's length leads to an odd coincidence. The interval between the start and the end of
I'm Gonna Be is 3 minutes and 30 seconds,[10] and the ISS is moving is 7.66 km/s.
This means that if an astronaut on the ISS listens to
I'm Gonna Be, in the time between the first beat of the song and the final lines ...
... they will have traveled just about
exactly 1,000 miles.
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