Given an only moderately tricky trip to one pole or another, I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's already been done.
> I could do a human-powered circumnavigation in the second sense in mere seconds.
They were using a "at least the length of the Tropic of Cancer" definition intended to allow aircraft to use jetstreams all the way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Aviation), so not quite that simple.
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Date: 2007-03-01 07:12 pm (UTC)They were using a "at least the length of the Tropic of Cancer" definition intended to allow aircraft to use jetstreams all the way around (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation#Aviation), so not quite that simple.