The world longest road

That is a cool ass fact tho. Whats the most dangerous part of that walk from a natural environment perspective? Whats the most dangerous part from a state of the world perspective?
Jerboa is good but having done no others yet, I cant recommend one way or another. I cannot see the picture while typing this, will I be able to read the origin and destination and pull this up for myself when I go back to look at the OP? Do we know if this is the longest possible mapped walking route, or just the points fartest apart on the map from a satellite perspective? Gosh hows that compare to the longest possible drive?

That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.
- Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?
  
  Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That's a route with some chest hair!
  
  It goes near, but not through Ukraine.
- Adventure!

I really don't understand Americans and their racial stuff. Why white?
- Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context "white" is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.
  (See "black twitter")
  
  It still just sounds racist to me. The joke is that black people are poor?
  
  We're not uncomfortable, we're baffled at your fixation on race, and on skin colour specifically. In European countries, generally, mostly, there is no this weird racial tribalism. Some people are racist, for sure, and a bunch of institutional racism is still a thing, but it's a bad thing and we understand it in this context.
- Best way I can explain American’s “fixation” on race is that our country’s history is based on the attempt to create a racist white utopia through law (slavery, ethnic cleansing, manifest destiny, segregation, Jim Crow, private prisons etc.).
  Many of the historical debates, protests, rebellions, riots, and wars we’ve had were largely surrounding the issue of racial equality. And… it never went away because racist white people have evolved their political tactics. They still want “the South to rise again”, they still want “to Make American Great Again”, they still want segregation, slavery, and woman subordination.
  You might be thinking, “it’s not that serious”, but the mere fact that America is becoming the de facto Nazi Regime of the West now says it all. Hitler was deeply inspired by America’s Jim Crow laws and used it as a platform to address “the Jewish Question”. But, White American’s racism didn’t just materialize out of nothing. It’s descendant of Western Imperialism and Colonialism that was being exported across the globe by Europeans who had finally come to a geopolitical status quo on their continent after checks notes thousands of years of fighting over whose nation and religion is better.
  TL;DR: American’s being fixated on race is just the next phase of geopolitical infighting that came after thousands of years of Europeans fixating on nationality and religion, both of which are becoming less relevant each day than one’s ethnic and cultural identity.
  
  The real reason is less about creating an actual "whites only country" and more about creating a political outgroup to scapegoat so they can stoke hatred on that line and cause the working class to be distracted fighting each other, so they don't band together to fight their mutual enemy of those playing the puppetmaster. It's been the goto strategy since the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion. Races don't exist from a biological perspective, there's more variation within a "race" than between them.
  
  You need to learn about the history of Western scientific racism as it would fill a few holes in your thinking here. Essentially Europeans needed a way to justify enslaving fellow Christians which normally is extremely illegal under canonical law. Scientific racism was the way these Europeans justified breaking this law.
  
  Oh, I know why they're obsessed with race. What I don't understand is why this meme can get upvoted and not discarded as racist. And I'm not crying about "wah racism against whites" I mean real racism.
- I think it has to do with the very high number of "van life" vloggers who overwhelmingly seem to be white American couples. Google van life vloggers and take a look at the image results.
  
  Most of which probably park that van in their 5-car garage between shoots. 😂
- after living in the US for some time i think i'm starting to get it...
  one thing about the life in the US that the hollywood movies don't show you very well is that the country is extremely tribal. the stories of diversity or of outsiders building their american dream are almost pure fantasy - you don't make it in america because of the environment but in spite of it.
  the way things work here is that you have to be a part of a group and you habe to stick with that group no matter what. because otherwise you are done. that's why it is so hard for either democrats or republicans to admit when their politicians do even the most insane shit. that's why people would rarher risk their kids lives rather than go against their peer group and vaccinate them. and that's also why it is so important that the couple is "white" and not black, latino or (god forbid) mixed...
  racism, xenofobia, nationalism and mysoginy are just side effects of a society that is split into constantly competing groups that reserve all the benefits for their own members... constant positive and negative discrimination that forces everyone to fall in or be left behind and that is stoked by any entity interested in exploiting those fragmented groups more easily.
  
  USA definitely is tribal but I have to say that Democrats do things when their politicians do something crazy. They resign over stuff that a Republican would just ignore. The Democrats have their issues but policing behavior isn't one of them.
  Unless it's tied to capital and power then senile people can rule even if that is in fact insane.
- as if white supremacy and racial strife originated in america
- Their society is so fixated into that that is haunting. I can't imagine the histeria that a "PoC" has to endure.
- Because whoever wrote that is a racist.

In the very loose meaning of "can walk". This road crosses several dangerous areas for multiple reasons, from war and jungles, to deserts and tundra, not to mention all the visas you'd need.
- There's a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.
  Russ Cook.
  
  i can think of much more exciting things to do if i had a death wish tbh
- Dude even excluding the human factors like politics, war, etc, the terrain would just be insanely rough and dangerous in basically every possible way
  
  This route walks up the Nile and crosses the desert um Sudan. It then walks down remote roads in the DRC. It's just so over the top insane.

This is the farthest distance not the longest road
Case in point
- "I live at 0024 Long as Fuck Road."
  "OMG, we live on the same street! I live on 999999 Long As Fuck Road."
- That ain't the longest road you can squiggle down the alleys in the cities. The longest road probably has like 3/4 of the distance just moving down the roads in the cities in a zig zag pattern.
  
  Worse. You would be walking in a circular pattern approaching the center whilst'd skipping every other intersection. Then you would proceed outwards on the roads you skipped initially. Do that in every city you encounter.
- But that's not one road but multiple
  
  Pretty sure the roads are discontinuous in the original post too
- Walking from Italy to Greece? Good luck!

I got curious. The map/path is real.
BUT
The map begins and ends pretty arbitrarily. Both roads keep going before and beyond those points.
It assumes a ferry ride across the Suez canal (although there is seemingly a new-ish floating bridge that allows pedestrians to cross the canal, but it is only floated out at certain times (and maybe doesn't exist anymore after a boat collision incident?))

Bruh fuck no, I'm gonna die in South Sudan if I walk this.
- Fucking impressive to make it that far tbh
  
  Depends which end you start.
  ...or maybe that doesn't matter.
- That whole middle east area is getting fucked by Israel. They will target you for fun, regardless of skin color.
  
  The part through Israel is by far the safest section of this trail.
  
  Oh please, stop playing the victim you pathetic cunt! Everyone knows that there's no moral difference between Israel and its neighbours. The only difference is who's got the bigger guns.
- I would die in Cape town lol
  
  That's why I'm going backwards from Magadan to Cape Town! See you at the end losers!!! /S
- If the cannibal soldiers of the Congo don't get you first
  
  Wow I thought that was a joke. I just looked it up. Fucking hell.

There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.
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legitimately one of the cool things about white people

If I can average 1.5km/hr with gear at 9hr/day this hike will take 4.5 years.
- 1.5km/h is super slow, no?
  
  You aim for 50km a day when you’re backpacking (5 an hour, 10 hours a day)
  But there are some pretty hot climates you are walking through and water will be scarce
  
  Yeah, it is. Average walking speed is like 4 - 5 km/h. 30km/day is a good marching speed. So, 2.4 years, assuming 30km a day, 6 days a week.
  
  you have to consider that humans need rest sometimes
  
  That's an average over the 9 hours, so including breaks.
  
  It's probably on the low end. Gear weight, elevation change, rough terrain, and breaks will affect overall speed.
- Post a link to your GoFundMe I'll kick in a few bucks.

On the map it just crosses the red sea, how is this a continuous road?
Who do they think can walk this, Moses?
- If you keep reading they introduce a new skill that just let's you walk on top the water.
  
  What, you can't butterfly 26Km?
- I think it's a misrepresentation. This is probably the two most distant places by Google Maps trip duration.

Fun fact: If you were able to cross the Bering Straight then the only thing that would keep this road from reaching Argentina would be the Darien Gap, a stretch of dense rainforest that separates Panama from Colombia. Unfortunately it's one of the most inhospitable places on Earth!
- If immigrants can do it, then i can too
- if you could cross this impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness then all you would need to do is cross this other impassable stretch of inhospitable wilderness!
  I know what you meant but it was funny to me haha
- Could always do the old school google walking route and take a kayak with you.
- There are paths through.

They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. You'd have to walk this road about 2 and a half times just to become an expert at walking.

This would take over 187 days if you didn't have to stop to sleep.
- So I walked the Pacific Crest Trail in 106 days. That's 2650mi/4264km so I walked about 25mi/40km per day.
  So if I could maintain that pace (which is debatable because the PCT doesn't go through different countries or warzones) this would take me 557 days, or about 18 months.

I believe that goes through the Road of Bones in Siberia. From what I saw of Long Way Round (where Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman ride around the world on motorcycles), it's not really a road much of the year. You wouldn't want to walk it in the winter for obvious reasons. You also wouldn't want to walk it in the warmer seasons, because the snow melts and floods the road.
It's only a road in the sense that Google Maps marks it as one.
The documentary simply couldn't continue on the planned route, and they hucked it over to Alaska early on. That was after putting up with some shit ass mud in and around Mongolia where they were dropping their bikes every 10 feet (and I am not exaggerating).

They'll have two kids along the way too.

How do you cross the Meme Zar?

This is the road our grandparents used to walk to get to school if the stories they tell are true...
- That's what they meant by "uphill both ways". Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.

If the goal is to go straight there, yeah. If the goal is longest, you'll have a hell of a lot of detours

187 days, if you're walking continuously 24/7
- This route is for sleepwalkers only.

What is this a reference to?
- Moses crossing the red sea? I don't know but the route on the map definitely crosses from Africa to Asia too far south.
  
  Also, you can't walk across the Suez canal.

You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere, they won't make it home, but they really don't care...
Could it be a Fastball reference...? Hmm...

i didn t get it

If I can average v km/hr with gear at x hr/day this hike will take 22387/v/x/365 years.
- As long as you film it and put it on the internet, why not!
- V * X = km per day
  22387 / (V * X) = number of days needed
  22387 / (V * X * 365) = number of years
  Walking 8 hrs a day, at a leisurely 7 km/hr, can do it in about a year.