ohhh it’s a math’s problem! nice one 🙂 well lets do the maths together. An average person walks at a speed of 3mph, the distance around the world is 24,901 miles… that’s 8300 hrs if walking constantly, but that’s impossible so lets say you walk 12 hours per day, that’s 690 days, which is about 2 yrs (remember there’s 365 days/yr). That’s a really long time! I would follow the man of steel’s example and just fly rather than walk 😉 Thanks for asking, great question 🙂
Hello, let’s say that we walk at 6km/hr and that we walk for 8 hours a day so that’s 48km a day. The circumference of the earth is 40 000 km. So in principle we would need 40 000/ 48 = 833 days which is 2 years, 3 months and 13 days. However we should consider that there is not any path on the ground around the earth, so at some point we would need to swim!
And if we want to make it really complicated we could look at the distant of all those ups and downs of you walking along the seabed wearing a diving suit! If you’re walking along the equator you’d do an awful lot of seabed walking. So the distance would be a lot longer and would take longer. Or if you want to do it by land only, well that’s a lot of zig-zagging across continents.
Great question. It really got me thinking.
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