file this under the "no way in hell can be true" file

[WindRavenX]

The average person walks the equivalent distance from earth to the sun and back every year!
-- Sportscenter’s "Did You Know"


Umm...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. No way!

[WindRavenX]

2. serious

Seriously...I am really blasted right now, but even i knew that was wrong.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. That's about 186 million miles.

That can't be right.

[baldguy]

19. 21,000 miles per hour

And it takes me a half hour to drive the 10 miles to work every morning.

[Purrfessor]

4. Only if my couch is on the Earth and my refrigerator is on the Sun....

otherwise this can't possibly be true. Although we recently got a puppy that requires 32 trips outside every hour to go potty. But that would probably just get me to Mars and back.

[obxhead]

5. I call BS. I'll take that bet too.

[henslee]

6. Please, if that were true, we'd all walk be walkin to the sun.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. Maybe the sun was relocated

I've seen the correct number quoted many times. It's generally estimated at 75 miles per year.

On edit: let me say I think that number is ridiculous in the opposite extreme. I think it was an old study but still quoted, probably improperly. Maybe it meant walking outside or recreational walking. If it means every step of the day or year, no chance it's only 1/4 mile per day.

[Left Is Write]

28. 75 miles per year can't possibly be right.

I walk more than twice that in a month.

[Az]

8. Lets put it this way

I used to have a job where I walked a lot. Each day I wracked up about 7 miles on the job. We wore pedometers on occaisions just to rag on other departments about how much we had to walk. 7 miles a day 5 days a week... not even close to the sun.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. How far is that in football fields?

:shrug:

[amerikat]

10. I'm on my 126th pair of shoes and it's only November.(nt)

[WindRavenX]

11. seriously, how dumb are the people at ESPN?

I mean, honest to god, MILLIONS of miles?!!? Do they think we're THAT stupid?

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Well we are talking about sports people here...

:hide: :evilgrin:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. That would come to almost 510,000 miles a day which would

mean we would have to walk at a speed of 21250 MPH. OTOH, it could be a trick statement.

[Kenneth ken]

14. ...

a marathon is a bit over 26 miles, so if one walked a marathon eavery day, they would walk about 9,490 miles in a year. So if one walked 9,800 marathons each day, one could walk the distance from the earth to the sun and a wee bit back.

26 x 365 = 9,490

93,000,000 / 9,490 = ~9,800

26 miles/marathon x 9,800 marathons/day = 254,800 miles/day
254,800 mpd x 365 days = 93,002,000 miles.

You people must just be lazy if you don't average somewhere near 9,800 marathons every day.


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[democracyindanger]

15. 115,000 miles in a lifetime

ESPN needs google.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. If that's the case...

(and I've seen 65,000 miles, but who knows...) the idjits mixed up the sun and the moon and the time-- but still would get it wrong.

At 115,000 per lifetime, that's just halfway to the moon.

But, I suspect their audience will barely make the round trip to the Sun&Moon Tavern.

[pokerfan]

17. No, ESPN needs a calculator

[lovelaureng]

18. Sportscenter needs to pull their head

out of their ass. This doesn't sound even close to the truth!

[Deep13]

20. The average American ...

...walks the equivalent distance from the couch to the refrigerator every year.

[Shell Beau]

21. Okay, maybe the moon, but sure as hell not the sun!!

If so, I'd be so damn skinny you wouldn't even be able to see me!! :P

[underpants]

22. Bush has a plan to go to the Sun

we go at night.

[atomic-fly]

23. I like that one...

[RedCloud]

24. Extremely possible! Solar Corona Envelops Earth

Good thing I taught some rocket scientists in my day...

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/spartan/the_corona.html

So if you can move one brazillionth of an inch, you can do it!:P

[sasquatch]

25. Has your boyfriend been staying out of Tony Soprano's poker clubs?

:D

[anarch]

26. well, I know I do

I walk at least 2 million miles every day, more on some days, so I'm pretty sure I do about 750 million miles each year. :crazy:

[RedCloud]

27. Surrender you naysayers, surrender!

As I posted earlier when I deep fired you in the fat of your own contradictions, if you just walk to the sun's atmosphere, walk no further. You are already there.

Apologies appreciated!