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What happens. when you ping and then you wait for it to come back, if youre going too fast, the ship is here and ping wont get to the translouiser on the bottom of the boat. so five miles per hour. one mile width. thats five square miles per hour of the ocean. theres 130 million square miles of the ocean bottom. i did the math. i divided it all up. if you never stopped for fuel and you never stopped for new sailors, it would take you 2,955 years to map the ocean with one ship. >> wait, thats all...
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