Apr 18
This is pretty great stuff. Follow these directions to the letter:
1. go to http://www.google.com
2. click on “maps”
3. click on “get directions”
4. type “New York” in the first box (the “from” box)
5. type “London” in the second box (the “to” box)
(hit get directions)
6. scroll down to step #23 and read on.
Pretty awesome. Thanks to Eeek for turning me onto this.
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I wonder if I could do that…hmm…
grabs arm floaties…
lol old.
Worse part is that Google says it will take 30 days to do it. Its would take 31 if you swim at the record speed 24/7 no pee break.
Haha, that’s awesome.
Awesome. Just awesome. I love the sense of humor of the Google people.
I’m disappointed in Google Maps. They need to add better directions for the swim part, it would be so easy to end up in Africa or Iceland instead of the UK
One ahs to wonder why it sends you through more water instead of hitting land ASAP.
Thanks for bringing this up Scott, that’s hilarious. I wonder what the directions to Japan are…
“Worse part is that Google says it will take 30 days to do it. Its would take 31 if you swim at the record speed 24/7 no pee break.”
Why would you need a pee break? you’re in the ocean
How about poop break? You need to stop and poop, or else it will rub in your crack and get itchy.
I sense someone will try it, drown and the family will sue Google for giving false information.
you can do this with any european country. it’s funny tho
24.
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
lol
lol@google
I cant get it to work! It goes to google.co.nz automatically!
My mom sent me this last week
Hey Coconut, click down the bottom of the google.co.nz page where it says “Go to Google.com”
Incidently, Google maps also gives me great directions to get from Heaven to Hell.
If Benoit Lecomte can do it so can I! It definately beats the cost of a flight back to the UK, but I can’t take 2 and a half months off work to swim it
haha but its old news :S
Coconut: just go directly to maps.google.com
Pretty funny. Not as good as the megazoom on the camels in Chad, though. If you move around a bit, you can see a guy looking straight up at the camera. Apparently there are high-res bits dotted around Africa; something to do with National Geographic.
I wonder why they send you via France? It would be less swimming if you just head straight for Wales or Cornwall then get the train to London, and you miss out all those nasty toll roads, after all that swimming your not going to have any dry Euro’s anyway
works just as well with the german google maps!
it reads then
Schwimmen Sie durch den Atlantik!
put a big smile on my face (i would write book a nonstop flight from JFK through London)!
This could come in handy some day, once I get my Kevin Costner-Waterworld flipper hands.
Ah. Old, but good. Seems like a time consuming ordeal…
Okay, this one actually got me giggling in my cubicle (and at the end of my shift, at that.
Kudos to both Google, and the tipster.
Works on danish to (“Svøm tværs over Atlanterhavet”)
Hey, I thought you said you listened to Buzz Out Loud every day??? This is from like weeks ago.
I thought I sent this to you. xP whatever, I must be thinking of someone else. Yeah, its funny.
its number 24
Yeah its funny but what would have been funny as well is if it didn’t tell you to swim but gave you directions to the airport.
But I stumbled across a english version the other day. very funny…