One km = 600m miles, says CNN

Stretching it a bit


The article in question notes that the recent discovery of Xena - hailed by some as the tenth planet - actually calls into question Pluto's status as a proper, grown-up body in our solar system.



This, by our reckoning, makes the distance between Vulture Central and the nearest pub a thirst-inducing 2,400,000,000 miles, exceeding the previous desperate Reg hack beer dash (Australian Outback, 2001, three hours in the 4x4 just to get his hands on a cold tinnie) by a whopping 2,399,999,760 miles*. Strewth. ®



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