LONG LIVE THE BBC
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- GE (Great Erasmus)
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LONG LIVE THE BBC
According to this afternoon's BBC Five O'Clock News a party of British explorers has just reached the source of the Nile, having walked 4,000 (four thousand) miles in 8 (eight) days. Wow! Some walk!
- jhopgood
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Re: LONG LIVE THE BBC
Haven't heard it but unless it is a hoax, someone is going to have to help me with the arithmetic.petard249 wrote:According to this afternoon's BBC Five O'Clock News a party of British explorers has just reached the source of the Nile, having walked 4,000 (four thousand) miles in 8 (eight) days. Wow! Some walk!
4,000 miles in 8 days is presumambly 500 miles a day.
Top marathon runners do about 25 miles in 2 hours, hence 300 miles a day, non stop.
It don't add up, but then it is getting late and the brain cells are slowing down. And it's still the beginning of the month.