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Fun With Figures.
(Have I mentioned that I suck at math?)
Based on driving around Westboro (back when I had a driver's license), it would take me five minutes (at ~45Km/h) to get Carlingwood Mall from my house. It took me about 20 minutes to walk that distance (whether it was -35 or +38, or anywhere in between, and regardless of whether I had a couple of bags of groceries/library books or not).
Thus, 5 minutes of driving = 20 minutes of strolling.
Except that when driving on a highway, we'd be going at ~90Km/h, so... 2.5 minutes of driving would = 20 minutes of walking.
So.
Ottawa to Ithaca = 4 hours of driving at ~90Km/h. (Ottawa-Ogdensberg, Ogdensberg-Watertown, Watertown-Syracuse, Syracuse-Ithaca, conveniently in one-hour chunks).
90Km/h=1.5Km/minute
2.5 minutes, driving = 20 mintues, walking
In 2.5 minutes, driving (at 90Km/h) would take me 3.75 Km along the road.
As such, I would (in theory) cover 3.75 Km, walking, in about 20 minutes.
(I haven't actually tested this with a watch, so I could be wrong, but for the sake of argument, let's say I'm not. ;-)
If Ithaca is... ~360Km away from Ottawa (going by speed x hours, not by my atlas, 'cause I'm damn sure we don't travel in a straight line. ;-)
Then...
360/3.75 = 96 [units of 20 minutes-walking]
So that would work out to 1,920 minutes of walking.
Which would work out to 32 hours of walking.
Which means if I walked for eight hours a day, I could (in thoery) get from here to Ithaca in four days.
I personally find this unlikely, if only because of my tendency towards getting horribly lost in areas that I really should know my way around (and also because I'd be walking *through* cities like Syracuse, rather than by-passing them by walking along the free-way that runs through them, so I'd have to use the real streets which, I suspect, would take longer). :-)
This concludes our "Fun With Figures" episode for the day. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
(Have I mentioned that I suck at math?)
Based on driving around Westboro (back when I had a driver's license), it would take me five minutes (at ~45Km/h) to get Carlingwood Mall from my house. It took me about 20 minutes to walk that distance (whether it was -35 or +38, or anywhere in between, and regardless of whether I had a couple of bags of groceries/library books or not).
Thus, 5 minutes of driving = 20 minutes of strolling.
Except that when driving on a highway, we'd be going at ~90Km/h, so... 2.5 minutes of driving would = 20 minutes of walking.
So.
Ottawa to Ithaca = 4 hours of driving at ~90Km/h. (Ottawa-Ogdensberg, Ogdensberg-Watertown, Watertown-Syracuse, Syracuse-Ithaca, conveniently in one-hour chunks).
90Km/h=1.5Km/minute
2.5 minutes, driving = 20 mintues, walking
In 2.5 minutes, driving (at 90Km/h) would take me 3.75 Km along the road.
As such, I would (in theory) cover 3.75 Km, walking, in about 20 minutes.
(I haven't actually tested this with a watch, so I could be wrong, but for the sake of argument, let's say I'm not. ;-)
If Ithaca is... ~360Km away from Ottawa (going by speed x hours, not by my atlas, 'cause I'm damn sure we don't travel in a straight line. ;-)
Then...
360/3.75 = 96 [units of 20 minutes-walking]
So that would work out to 1,920 minutes of walking.
Which would work out to 32 hours of walking.
Which means if I walked for eight hours a day, I could (in thoery) get from here to Ithaca in four days.
I personally find this unlikely, if only because of my tendency towards getting horribly lost in areas that I really should know my way around (and also because I'd be walking *through* cities like Syracuse, rather than by-passing them by walking along the free-way that runs through them, so I'd have to use the real streets which, I suspect, would take longer). :-)
This concludes our "Fun With Figures" episode for the day. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
