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1000 people to sign up using the link in the description will get their first two months for only 99 cents the world seems like
It's becoming a smaller and smaller place all the time
as
Technology has improved the ability to travel around the world has gotten more and more easy to do with that being said though if you
Were absolutely determined to make a full circumnavigation around the planet today
What is the quickest time that you could possibly do it in, for a little bit of reference?
Let's go back to the first time that anybody successfully did that. the men aboard ferdinand magellan's voyage back in
1519 being a part of this voyage really truly sucked they started with five ships and
270 men and took over three years to complete the trip Magellan himself got killed in the Philippines along the way and out of those
270 guys only eighteen of them managed to actually survive the journey back to Spain
Travelling around the world was a truly terrifying feat to attempt then and still was for a long time
Everybody who tried it took somewhere between two to three years up until the 19th century the first ship that got really close to
Circumnavigating the world and under a year was a Confederate ship basically on accident during the u.s
Civil War the CSS shenandoah left London to raid Union shipping lines across the world and wanting to avoid
Piracy charges after the war ended the crew sailed back to London to surrender to the British instead twelve and a half months after first
Departing from there, building canals later in the Suez and Panama enabled people to not have to sail around the entire
Continents of Africa and South America which allowed for much quicker travel times as of the making of this video the fastest that anybody has
circumnavigated the world in a boat so far was just last year in
2017 Frances Joy
Yon along with a crew of five sailors managed to sail around the world in just 40 days
23 hours 30 minutes and 30 seconds
But sailing is slow when compared to flying
So how quick can you get around while in the air the first time anybody flew around the world happened back in
1924 by the US Army Air Service and it took them
175 full days to complete which is
ludicrously slow
But it was still faster than any other
Alternative was at the time just a few years later though in nineteen twenty-nine that time was
drastically improved by Zeppelin piloted by Hugo Eckener who managed to get around the world in a brisk
21 days two years later in 1931 two pilots flying a Lockheed Vega
Smashed that record by flying around the world in just 8 days 15 hours and 51 minutes
progress on getting this time down further continued through 1949 when the US Air Force flying a b-50 superfortress
Made the first flight around the world without stopping to refuel relying instead on midair refueling
The plane managed to fly around the world in just 94 hours and one minute
This was the first time that humans managed to travel around the world in less than a week
So now we can fully appreciate how easy and fast this is in the modern world
Air France flying the Conchords that the all-time record for the fastest time circa
Navigating the world in a sub orbital flight all the way back in 1992
They managed to get around the entire planet in just 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds over
800 times
faster than Magellan's first voyage was in
1519 nobody even now has managed to travel around the world in under a day without having gone to space going to space though changes
Both the rules and the times that are possible by a dramatic amount if you're to believe Elon Musk's claims about what?
SpaceX is new rocket the interplanetary transport
System will be capable of it should be able to transport anybody on earth from one place to any other place in under one hour
If you watch the video that they uploaded to their YouTube channel they claim that a flight from New York City to Shanghai will only
take
39 minutes while on board if we accept the claim that the rocket can get from one side of the earth to the other in
Under an hour, then it should be reasonable to assume that it could fully circumnavigate the world in under two hours
That's really fast, but there are already people who have done
It faster
This guy Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space back in
1961 and completed his first full orbit of the earth in just a tiny
108 minutes
But the astronauts onboard the International Space Station
Can do even better the ISS makes a complete orbit around the earth once every 92 minutes
Which if you can afford the 20 to 40 million dollar price tag
to take a trip up, it is the fastest way that you can move your body around the earth well
Maybe there are some satellites and elio that can orbit the earth quicker in 84 minutes
So you could possibly strap yourself onto one and ride it out
You'd probably die of course
But nothing in the rules said that you need it to be alive to complete it so there you have it
92 minutes if you want to stay alive and
84 minutes if you don't or if you want to settle for
traveling in a plane
Just hope that the Concorde comes back and do it in about 32 hours of
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