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cartman
03-31-2007, 03:29 PM
hxxp://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=chicago%20to%20london&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.581364,112.148438&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=3&ll=46.437857,-42.890625&spn=37.174963,112.148438&om=1

The key is step 20.

:D

ISiddiqui
03-31-2007, 03:31 PM
LOLOL!

That's brilliant :D.

TroyF
03-31-2007, 03:32 PM
Well, that is one way to attempt it on a low budget I guess.

sabotai
03-31-2007, 03:32 PM
At least it's not a toll road.

AlexB
03-31-2007, 03:47 PM
Bizarrely it makes you go past the south west tip of Cornwall and carry on for a fair few miles more to get to France. Not only is it mad, it's vindictive.

Karlifornia
03-31-2007, 04:11 PM
Welp, gotta follow the google map. Don't wanna get cute with it and wind up at the Ivory Coast. *puts on water wings*

MikeVic
03-31-2007, 04:17 PM
That's funny.

Tigercat
03-31-2007, 04:22 PM
Interesting, taking into account the time Google Maps estimates driving, Google Maps believes that the average driver can swim 3462 miles in 29 days for about 119 miles a day.

Someone at Google has been reading too much Aquaman.

Passacaglia
03-31-2007, 05:47 PM
Um...that's nice and all, but I live on the north side, and these directions start in the south side. I assume the directions for me are totally different?

MrBug708
03-31-2007, 05:52 PM
Google needs to be hxxp'ed?

DanGarion
03-31-2007, 06:32 PM
Google needs to be hxxp'ed?
Of course didn't you see that banner ad for Porn?

MrBug708
03-31-2007, 07:09 PM
Seeing porn on a website isn't anythign new :)

cartman
03-31-2007, 07:16 PM
It appears those are the standard ports of exit and entry between the US and Europe. I told it to map between my house and my old apartment in Milan, and it took the same transatlantic route.

MrBug708
03-31-2007, 07:19 PM
Well it is the most common swimming channel

sterlingice
03-31-2007, 08:01 PM
Interesting, taking into account the time Google Maps estimates driving, Google Maps believes that the average driver can swim 3462 miles in 29 days for about 119 miles a day.

I have to laugh that someone did the math here :)

SI