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Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

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154 points jason_pomerleau | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 01:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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jedberg ◴[03 Jul 25 03:08 UTC] No.44451274[source]▶
Intersting! I know that in the contiguous USA, you will never be more than 20 miles from a road no matter where you are, but have no idea how far one can drive from a town.
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moralestapia ◴[03 Jul 25 03:46 UTC] No.44451459[source]▶
So if you're ever lost, you just walk?

(Assuming nothing kills you in nature)

Edit: Wait, no. You could be extremely unlucky and be walking parallel to the closest road, lol.

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umanwizard ◴[03 Jul 25 04:02 UTC] No.44451518[source]▶
Walking in a spiral pattern (where the layers of the spiral are close enough that if you look toward the center, you can always see the point where you were on the previous layer) will guarantee that you eventually see all points on any given radius.
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1. mousethatroared ◴[03 Jul 25 12:16 UTC] No.44454227[source]▶
You're not wrong, but this is proof that Id rather be stranded in the wilderness with an archeologist than a CS major (I'm assuming).

An archeologist would walk down a gradient until they find a stream and therefore a fluvial network to a human settlement.

Your answer gets me killed.

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2. moralestapia ◴[03 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44455978[source]▶
"Easy, we just A-star this thing and walk for a maximum of 273 days."