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FROM: Wobberthwaite, England
TO: Vernet-les-bains, France
DATE RANGE: 1 August 1911 - 1 September 1911
The system analyses digitised timetables, road maps, diaries and travel writings, etc. and suggests plausible ways that someone could have made the journey at the time specified.
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For some journeys travel would have been a fair bit quicker in the past, back when Pangaea removed the need for lengthy and tedious sea crossings |
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Fascinating [a1] Yes that is the kind of thing I imagined. Just needs timetables and also shipping timetables so you can travel overseas. |
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[hippo] sea crossings can be quicker and easier than overland if there are no roads |
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How about an Hysterical Route Map…. routes selected by their capacity to cause hysteria on the part of those negotiating them. |
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[pocmloc] Yes, that's true - I really meant that the journey would be quicker because there might be no sea between two points in Pangaea which today have, for example, the Atlantic Ocean between them |
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Hmmm yes I see your point. I suppose then if you start your journey early enough in the history of the Universe everything is just 0.1 second walk away. |
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Yes but because everyone's in the same place, the traffic would be awful |
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I'd like to see the 1665 version of this, with the route-finding algorithm having to find ways to navigate around towns and villages that had barricaded themselves against the outside world to avoid the plague, and the travel options available - stagecoach (avoid highwayman hot-spots - yes/no?), horse and cart, walking |
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Great if you want to re-enact "Around the world in 80 days". |
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