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She who must be obeyed and I just wrapped up our Thanksgiving dinner - tough day when your family is 10000 miles away. Anyhow, happy Thanksgiving to all.

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Google says Earth's diameter at the equator is 7926.28 miles (12756.1 km). So you may be certain that your family is always less than 10000 miles away. :)

Er, and that distance is only important if you're going to drill through the Earth to see them. ;)

Otherwise the distance is upper-bounded around 12400 miles. At any rate, happy Thanksgiving wherever you are.

Indeed, and as the crow (or 747-400 or A380) flies we're 10372 miles from the fam: MEL->JFK

Unless you are an astronaut.

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