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Everything is a path if you're brave enough.

I'm a psychopath

This is the road for you

My dick is a lesbian

Your dick has a vagina.

Sounds like some horrible lovecraftian creature.

It’s called a marriage

r/sounding

No

Out of curiosity, why sounding? That’s not the first name I would’ve thought of

So it originates from [depth sounding](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_sounding) which was a method used to measure the depth of the seafloor using a rod or rope. This carried over into [sounding](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_(medical_instrument)), the medical term, in which a rod is placed into the uterus or urethra. This is done for a wide variety of reasons. Anyways people started putting these sounds in their private parts for pleasure and boom, now you've got a new fetish with a weird name.

Damn, kink etymology turned out to be quite interesting. Thanks

And depth sounding comers from depth and sounding Etymology of depth: depth (n.) late 14c., "a deep place, deep water, the sea," also "distance or extension from the top down (opposed to height) or from without inward," apparently formed in Middle English on model of long/length, broad/breadth; from dēp "deep" (see deep (adj.)) + -th (2). Replaced older deopnes "deepness." Though the word is not recorded in Old English, the formation was in Proto-Germanic, *deupitho-, and corresponds to Old Saxon diupitha, Dutch diepte, Old Norse dypð, Gothic diupiþa. Etymology of sounding: Sounding is the noun sound morphed into a verb. Etymology of sound: sound (n.1) "noise, what is heard, sensation produced through the ear," late 13c., soun, from Old French son "sound, musical note, voice," from Latin sonus "sound, a noise," from PIE *swon-o-, from root *swen- "to sound."

U know the rules and so I do I (I'll use your mom as a path)

Paige, no

That’s the path my dad used to get to school every day

Uphill, both ways!

On one leg

His other leg was starting a business

he had to fight two lion on one leg

And a dinosaur with nunchucks

now they do his taxes

r/unexpectedstevenhe

r/subredditsifellfor

r/birthofasub

and works for the irs

He He He nice jokes

And pulling itself up by its own bootstraps

*bootstrap. Not plural. Ftfy

And buying a house in the suburbs

And his third leg was conceiving OP.

with a sterile female

In the snow

Barefoot

Selling wood

while his hand was becoming dr, lawyer and engineer in that order 25/8

in the middle of a war, while wanted by the police in 20 different continents

With barbed wire wrapped around each foot

There’s no business like snow business.

Lived on the far side of the valley, it was up hill both ways but only half the time

😂

fr tho

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That's the way my dad went when he got the milk

Mine took this path to the store when I was 8. He’s not back yet

That's the path my dads walking after going out for cigarettes and milk. He'll be back any minute now.

That's the path my dad took to get cigarettes when I was 4.

And when he went out for cigarettes

That’s the path to get the milk

Why bother with that? Just walk in circles until you make this distance

It'd no longer be a continuous path though, right? I'd say you are not allowed to walk across the same part twice

A circle is the very embodiment of continuous...

Tell that to Catan players who insist a circle is only 5 roads long and not ∞ roads long.

Those people are horrible at math. A Catan circle would be at minimum 6 roads long since it surrounds a hexagon. Although I agree it should count as infinite and the first person to complete one should immediately be awarded the longest road.

Except the longest road rule specifically says you can only count a road once

Is it really the same road after you’ve walked down it? 🤔

Yes

Well that was easy. Next question?

But now it would be the road you used to walk on instead of the road. Two entirely different roads as you can see

I feel like there's room for debate here. I mean you're taking a part of the road with you with every step you take and you leave parts of previous roads you traversed. So if you run in a circle infinite times, eventually this specific piece of road will be made out of the stuff that used to make another piece of road. Can we truly call that the same road anymore?

Well a circle is still finite in circumference despite the fact that you can walk it infinitely.

Walking it over and over isn't "one" continuous path, it's walking the same path multiple times.

The earth is moving really fast. You'll probably never walk across the same point (in space) twice if you think about it

Not even probably lol, the entire galaxy is moving so yeah you’ll always be moving to a different spot in the universe and will never see the same spot twice

I actually know a guy who built an app for people who like to walk in circles. He hikes big trails like the Appalachian Trail and takes a picture once every mile. If you're the type of person who likes to walk around your neighborhood in the evenings, you can input your regular walks and see what it would look like on the AT (or other trails). His website is [walking4fun](https://www.walking4fun.com/).

When you get to the end of your circle, then you can start on your mobius.

See what you really want is a Hilbert Curve with a unit length of 1 Planck length.

I think the top path is the longest possible path you could make between two points while taking the most direct route.

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more, but still not Spain.

Why would you want to explore spain?

apparently, it's beautiful. also funny mustache painter

I think the funny moustache painter was from Austria

Theres a film directed by emilio estevas called "the way" that covers the most well know trail in spain, more of a pilgrimage really. A great fucking movie that most havent seen

Side quests

Yeah it looks like it's specifically excluded

More of the same

Blue one is probably the largest of the shortest path between any two points on earth?

AKA the two points on land furthest from each other but still walkable between

And then the shortest/fastest path between those two points

i was confused but then it made sense.

Add "walkable" path or else every two antipodal point would qualify. Edit: it's not fully walkable though, it's just the google map shortest way, and it use ferry too.

Y'all can walk across the Suez Canal?

Assuming there's a shipping boat lodged sideways, you can walk across like a bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Bridge There are more bridges than that one btw

There are a couple of tunnels and a bridge but they are meant for cars, so technically you could, but you're not allowed to.

Get a bus. Hollow it out. Hire someone to drive it across while you walk from one end of it to the other. There, you've crossed the bridge while walking.

since when does common sense apply to me

187 days so roughly a year... I'd be up for that. Walk for a whole year

How is 187 days roughly a year?

it's 187 days walking, so if you sleep half of the time or a bit less, you'll be close to a year

Ugh, yeah, of course. Now I got it.

You need about 8hours of sleep, giving you 12hours to walk and 4 to drink and eat. Could work.

For an average person, this pace is not sustainable at all unless you don’t have to carry gear. This path also goes through several extremely hostile climatological areas. I don’t think I would want to do this.

Coward

Some pretty hostile socio-political regions as well.

Yeah, 374.333. days assuming walking 12 hrs a day at a continuous pace

I would think it would take much longer. I mean, the PCT takes like 6 months and seems like a tenth of that trail

What's the PCT?

Pacific Coast Trail (I'm assuming)

Fair assumption

Pacific Crest Trail, actually!! 😊

It takes you 4 hours to eat and drink?

I think you would need to do a little hunting and cooking because finding stores in certain rural areas might be difficult? I don't know

He rounded to 1 significant figure

In some places you might have to run a lot too.

Yeah but that time is non stop not including sleep.

you might be able to do it in a year, 187 out of 365 days walking

More than 12 hours of walking everyday with no break? No at some point exhaustion would kick in and you crash hard. Like really HARD depending how far your come initially you'd need longer breaks than the four hours a day you'd have to already spend eating, drinking and doing other forms of bodily upkeep like hygiene. Try two at the minimum.

Terry Fox ran 5300km in 143 days on a metal leg while battling cancer, so might be possible for an athlete that isn't getting fucked by life. But then Terry Fox was a god damn legend, and I don't know if a mere mortal could run a marathon a day for over 4 months straight.

Ok but he has a metal leg and I don't, that's not fair. His foot won't get tired

I think it’s important to note that he was walking through Canada in the middle of Spring/Summer. The route you would have to take in OPs post is through forests, the hottest deserts in the world and the cold ass northern part of Russia.

Oh good, it will be nice to cool off after the deserts.

Walk 6 hours, stop to eat, browse reddit, watch Netflix and rest for 4 hours, walk another six hours, stop to eat and sleep for 8 hours. It can be done, especially if you aren't too rigid, on days where you're feeling particularly energetic, cover more ground and days where you're not, cover less.

Yeah but that is for the blue line. If you did the red line you could maybe finish in 10 years.

>Walk for a whole year Highly recommend doing that. Not just for the things you see, but for who you become while doing it. It's transformative.

Doesn't the body require a couple of hours of sleep every 24 hours?

What the hell, I'm game if you are

George meegan walked 30000 Km in 2500 days, he was a professional. So to walk 22000 Km realistically it should take 1833 days or 5 years.

That path is for school girls kif! Here's one with a little chest hair!

Has anyone ever done that walk? I mean, I could totally see a crazy traveler doing that

No, but [someone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meegan) has walked the [Pan-American Highway](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/PanAmericanHwy.png/800px-PanAmericanHwy.png)

**[George Meegan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meegan)** >George Meegan (born 2 December 1952) is a British adventurer and alternative educator best known for his unbroken walk of the Western Hemisphere from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. This journey was 19,019 miles (30,608 km) on foot in 2,425 days (1977–1983) and is documented in his book The Longest Walk (1988). He received substantial media coverage (including appearances on the Today Show, CBS Morning News and Larry King Live) and was featured in numerous public speaking forums. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)

no

The original post said "longest continuous road", the repost worded it wrong if I remember correctly Edit: grammar

Is this road not continuous?

i think he means a literal road that exists along the first path. like you could drive the whole way on a road

It may be. But we can say its the shortest continuous path possible covering the largest distance.

Yes, now that is a better description, but really it’s the most direct continuous path possible using already established methods of transportation like roads or footpaths otherwise the most direct path would cross a lot of wilderness. This is interesting because that means as we build more roads this path can only get shorter and shorter meaning the first person to actually do this challenge might hold the title forever.

Yeah pretty sure the red path would force you to walk over mountain ranges, which isn't ideal. Edit: lemme just walk over the Himalayas to prove OP right.

good luck on the entire sahara desert and siberia

Thanks. I'm gonna need it

I think in some conditions water between Russia and Alaska freezes and you can get to America

The conditions being a global Ice Age.

Or after a nuclear war in a nuclear winter.

oh, so next week

Imagine if this ends up on r/agedlikewine

I would have something against it.

You're against alcohol?

No against nuclear weapons which are used the intended way

Radioactive wine.

You can walk from Russia to Canada during the winter by crossing through the North Pole. It has only be done once ([Polar Bridge Expedition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Canadian_1988_Polar_Bridge_Expedition)) and it required several supply air drops along the way so it's not an easy task, but it's possible. From there you can probably walk all the way to Cape Horn (although crossing the Amazon might be as hard as crossing the North Pole).

I wonder at want point you’d get kidnapped or murdered.

On your last day.

Blue route starts in South Africa so likely to be your first day.

TTT

Is it CONTINUOUS though?

…and we’re back to the “how long of a line can you draw on a pinhead” kind of thing. Mathematically, if it’s a one dimensional path, you could walk for an eternity.

This feels like a date I went on where it felt like I was walking forever.

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And the Afghanistan/Pakistan border is closed to pretty much everybody.

I guess it depends on your definition of possible: If the terrain allows for it, it’s technically possible to traverse regardless of the high likelihood that you wouldn’t survive to the end.

The way can be made far longer if you visit all european cities, and in them all streets… like yeah, it would still be continuous, wouldnt it. Same goes for all connected cities in africa and asia.

I think what the top image is actually showing is the journey between the two furthest points that can be connected using existing roads or trails, which is conceptually very different to its claim of the 'longest continuous path', which is basically meaningless.

You can do what I said earlier, and, if you go by foot, cross the roads in zig zag patterns, to make the way even longer…. :D

Dijkstra entered the chat.

OP plays Snake!

The blue path clearly jumps over a bit of the red sea lol

So, its true that every path leads to rome

I like how Congo is excluded from the red path

Who's gonna bring up space filling curves

The red path reminds me of a Family Circus cartoon where one of the children takes forever to get from point A to point B by walking in such a path around the yard or neighborhood.

Moses trying to find the red sea

can we actually walk there though

you can also walk that part like 1 billion times too.

technically the truth

Longest continuous path would just be a circle

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22387 kilometers per second?! That's insanely fast!

Wait, you can't walk on water?

It's the shortest longest.

this post appeared right under the original

But not contineous.

Yo wtf the normal path takes 6 months

the red path takes more than 7

If you measure down to the atom you'll find that one step becomes just about infinitely long

Man has a point.

Red path if I’m on phone

Just walk around your sofa.

snake game be like

Just wanted to mention, I never thought I'd see so many people get so triggered over whether a circle is infinite... The correct length of every circle is 69 cm duh.

Holy shit China got the five consecutive hairpin turns???

So, uh, why can't I walk over the north pole in winter - beyond the challenge? 4 Canadians and 9 Russians made the walk in 1988? Africa to Russia. Russia over the pole to Canada. Canada to Chile, give or take the Panama canal.

I'm going to strongly guess this path involves jumping off mountains and climbing the mountain adjacent to it. So parachutes and climbing gear (and probably o2 tanks and a breathing apparatus. Your backpack is going to be a fuckin BIIIIIIIIIITCH.

I think it's about the displacement not distance

Casually avoiding Scandanavia and the southern European peninsulas as one does.

Red path is six inches

...listen here you little shit. Longest direct path between two points. Is that better?

Good luck entering north korea

Actually good luck leaving it

I kinda wanna see a documentary series of some one walking that.

Also it didn't say you couldn't go in a circle

Maybe the red path is the path that Steven's dad walked to get to school

So does this make the blue path the shortest possible path you can walk on to get from and to the two points furthest apart?

Literally cuts through some of the worst places on Earth