Now ain’t that interesting ? You can use Google Maps to get directions from one location to another. It is most of the time pretty accurate displaying information about highways, signs, exits and so on to give you a good impression of the route that lies ahead. You can try it now and head over to the Google Maps website and use the Get Directions tab to enter a starting point and destination to see how the system works.
Now guess what happens if you enter a starting point in Europe and a destination in North America ? Let us see what happens: I start in Berlin and want the direction to Fort Knox. (I love gold, hehe). Everything appears to be looking fine. I’m receiving 64 parts that detail the journey from Berlin to Fort Knox. Nothing unusual so far but take a look at the image that details the route, it goes straight through the Atlantic Ocean.
Now if we analyze direction 40 on the list we see something very astonishing. It says “Swim Across the Atlantic Ocean” with a distance of 5572 kilometers, that is 3462 miles! Think this is a pretty strange suggestion: What do you do with your car btw, leave it behind ?
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"Traverser l’océan Atlantique à la nage"
Pour commencer, je n’aime pas les poissons d’Avril, donc ce billet n’en est pas un.
Lorsqu’on demande à Google Maps le trajet de Paris à New-York, il nous annonce un périple de 29 jours et 7 heures, avec une traversée de l’Océan Atlantique…
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someone sent that to me on myspace =]
Lol!!!!!
This is also true if you start in the US and end in Europe. This fact has been bouncing around for quite some time. I read it in a forum a couple of months ago.
john
It’s gets better if you go read down the step-by-step directions…. About step 24 they say “swim across the atlantic”. Someone at Google has a sense of humor.
this is about 8 months old . find something new
argh…google fixed it. it now just says google cannot calculate between —- and —- whatever your transatlantic locations were :(
You can still do it if you click and drag the desitination to the middle of brazil from anywhere in the US.
even the drag doesn’t work any more, to bad, old or not, it was funny
If you do one from Mass to Tokyo, it tells you to Kayak to Hawaii and then to Japan.