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OK

Lets try this one on for size.

It's  as complicated as the thread title suggests.

I'll start the ball rolling; 

 

No part of Berkshire is more than 8.5 miles from the M4.

 

Now it's your turn

 

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How about Valeri Polyakov - 437 days in space, (Mir space station) surely he must beat other earthlings for miles travelled.
Ian

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We all are.     The Earth's orbit has a circumference of 942,000,000 kilometers, so we all travel that far in a year.

Then Gennady Padelka has the record for time on Earth orbit, in Mir and the ISS, of 879 days.   In low Earth orbit the speed is about 28,000kph, so he will have travelled about 588,000,000 kilometers.     His time in space means that he has travelled that much more than anyone else.

 

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It all depends on your reference point. The Milky Way is travelling through space and  rotates with the galaxy at about 792,000km/h .That means in an 80 year lifetime you would  travel 555,000,000,000 km just from that, so the 588,000,000 km is a mere 0.1% more than everyone else - and that is ignoring the extra distance everyone travels due to orbit and rotation.  

You can tell I'm bored can't you.:(

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Yes John. Trying to be concise and over-did it. 

(Congrats on your piece on dampers in TRAction received today.)  

 

 

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I bow to the extra days in space by Gennady Padalka!

But here is an interesting fact;- if you took a piece of string and stretched it around the circumference of the world, then added 36" to the length of that string and again stretched it around the circumference of the world keeping it equidistant from the earth all the way around, the gap between the string and the earth would be approximately 6", do the maths
Ian

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Back to facts:

The fear of match sticks is called spirtophobia

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Back to the ‘most travelled person fact’.......... You’ve all got to get your feet back on the ground!  (Nothing to do with space; one person, who you all know, has travelled more across our planet than anyone else, ever........

 

Another clue coming in an hour or so (maybe cryptic)

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1 hour ago, john.r.davies said:

Yes, we all are.  Bored enough to point out that the Milky Way IS our Galaxy.    Did you mean the Solar System rotates in the Orion Arm of  the MW?

J

 

Did you know that the Milky Way, Galaxy and Mars all come from Slough.

And you can't see Southall from Slough because of the Hayes

Roger

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