I just realized I've never ever been outside of this rather small rectangle
I need to save up and try going somewhere completely different
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You're very fortunate to have traveled that "small" rectangle.
That's true. I certainly feel fortunate that my life exists within it. It's more of me noticing how limited (globally) my thinking/perspectives are.
Seeing europe in this orientation really threw me for a moment.
No worries, almost all of us have never been outside this rather small circle either:
I've never been inside that rectangle!
By our powers combined.....
That's ok. It doesn't matter.
"you don't need to look over the fence to know it's a dog barking"
Yeah, information is as easy to get as ever. Travel is for bragging, mostly.
This is the take of someone who really needs to see more of the world
By jet? Or by internet?
Plane train or automobile, Volkswalken or Shoebaru, really anything besides blind trust in what filters through your screen. Only thing you can see online is the internet
You are aware that I am reading your thoughts about tourism on my screen, right? Could you show me some of your travel photos so I don't take the same?
Every time I try to package an experience for transmission it just turns into content, might be better if you went outside for yourself
Come to Brazil!
Would love to travel to South America in general, Mexico first tho. Seems so big that it’s hard to think of where to start
Where's banana for scale?
Can you not see it?
No, can you put a red circle around?
I'd make a math joke about how technically you've only been to an infinitely small subset of that rectangle because your movement is 1D on a 2D plane but I don't know enough math to make it funny.
Since we live on a globe, all those angles are bigger than 90°, making it only a quadrilateral.
Yeah... "Small"
Travel is enlightening. When you unlock more if the map, you'll find out the orientation is different, too!
Luckily you can draw the rectangle as big as you want and still say "I've never been outside of this rectangle"
I know someone who's never been outside of south England
I also know your mom
Cyprus, Helsinki and Tenerife via RyanAir would be most cost effective to make it quite large and you stay within Schengen which is nice.
Its really all relative. The Earth is orbiting around the Sun at about 30km per sec. Furthermore, the Solar System is rotating around the Milkyway at about 800000 km per hour. Not to mention that the whole thing is speeding toward the Andromeda Galaxy too. In short, you have never stepped in the same place twice unless you consider the possibility that we are living in a massive time loop paradox.
Enjoy your future vacation.
Your rectangle is much bigger than my rectangle.
My rectangle is bigger than yours.
Dann right, it's bigger than yours.
Ryanair do flights to Morocco these days for what it's worth. I was in Casablanca years back and wasn't a big fan but they do other cities in Morocco too which I'm looking at myself as I have a voucher.
I'm surprised I didn't see comments on projections