Thank you for the numbers smile emoticon
   240 thousand is a nearly incomprehensible number to fathom in
   terms of distance.

   That's why I love that graphic. It's a reminder of JUST HOW FAR
   it really is. That we made it there and back again with the
   computing power of a cheap calculator is amazing but I believe
   we did it. A flight from where I am in the USA to the other side
   of the world via the great circle in Australia is 24 hours.

   That's 10,000 miles.

   If I escaped Earth's gravity and instead of going around I went
   perfectly aimed UP:

   then it would take about 2.4 days to get to the moon.

   I think that's where the illusion of "close" comes in. We travel
   long distances AROUND but rarely "up". it's harder to go up.
   We're so primitive in our space exploration. I honestly don't
   know why it's taking so darned long.   i mean, if it was all a
   movie production, which technically it could be of course, we'd
   be visiting Alpha Centuri by now, not wasting long years and
   decades... just... waiting...   I love this graphic though. I
   just saw it on a group called ILLUMITARDI - which is a weird
   mixture of people who believe in flat earth along with those who
   don't, moon landing hoaxes and those that don't, war
   conspiracies, media manipulation and all around absurdity. You
   can never tell if someone is serious or trolling most of the
   time and it's a hoot.