Dragaera

Geography: Version .2 Nearing Completion

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Mon Mar 29 08:13:22 PST 2004

At 22:21 03/28/2004 -0600, Bryan Newell wrote:

>The three issues I had with version .1 are (no text references here, I'll
>supply them when I post the document for version .2):
>
>1. "Dragon"
>
>During those 7 days, he marched in the vicinity of 800 miles, which works
>out to about 7 miles per hour... still an awfully fast march but... well, I
>don't know enough to call that impossible.

I think it is extremely improbable.  While an army of Dragaerans might make 
it, historic forced marches by humans end up at maybe 45 miles in a day, 
and never extend over the period of a week.  The Marine Corps figures on 4 
kph (2.5 mph) for marching speed, and anything over 32 km (20 mi) in a day 
is considered a forced march.  The distance is extended by extending the 
time on the march, meaning that 24 hours would make 96 miles.  That might 
be done one time, but not for over a week!


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Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net