One km = 600m miles, says CNN  Stretching it a bit   The article
in question notes that the recent discovery of Xena - hailed by
some as the tenth planet - actually calls into question Pluto's
status as a proper, grown-up body in our solar system.    This,
by our reckoning, makes the distance between Vulture Central and
the nearest pub a thirst-inducing 2,400,000,000 miles, exceeding
the previous desperate Reg hack beer dash (Australian Outback,
2001, three hours in the 4x4 just to get his hands on a cold
tinnie) by a whopping 2,399,999,760 miles*. Strewth. ®
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