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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

200 miles is long range now?

That doesn't even get you from Perth to Kalgoorlie, both in the same state..

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I feel like about 3 commenters will know where these places are

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Well...

  • Perth is Western Australia
  • Calgary is in Alberta, Canada

Sounds pretty long range to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel compelled to represent as a moderator of c/perth/westernaustralia over on the Aussie-Zone server.

There are tots-defs ten or twenty people here that will understand this hop, skip and a jump reference.

So, ah, yeah, sure showed you! 3! pffft!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Lemmy moment. Isn't federation great?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's me .. niche geography .. with only a few million people who might know what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could shoot a long range missile and hit and it would still stay in the same state.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To blow your mind, Kalgoorlie isn't even halfway across the width of the state and that's the short dimension.

If it was an independent country, which was at one point seriously considered, it would be the 10th largest country in the world.

It's three and a half times bigger than Texas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The Texas mind cannot comprehend this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

But it would go from Westlock to Athabasca. Checkmate, atheists.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Surely Storm Shadow and the French variant can go further then that being aircraft launched?

And ffs Germany send then Tarus.

Long range would be when they could hit Moscow, a stretch calling these long range.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, that's how secret weapon deals are done.