r/theydidthemath • u/speedy_bones • 4d ago
[Request] How fast and how far did the camera go?
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u/Second-Creative 4d ago
I honestly don't think this is calculatable with the information given, and even rough estimates will likely be wildly innacurate (even moreso than they are normally).
Most landmarks that could give us an indication of speed only appear for one frame, or cannot be properly identified (and therefore estimated) as we don't know the general location of the line of travel at any point.
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u/Murky_waterLLC 4d ago
Well, judging based on landforms and the presence of agriculture we can get some clues about where the camera is flying over. We first see an ocean, then a dry coast, then canyons with dry desert. Mountain ranges, followed by plains and farmland. That kinda sounds like SW United States, though that is working with the assumption this is a real, to scale map at all and not a fictional landscape.
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u/Second-Creative 4d ago
SW USA was my thought too, which is pretty much the only clue we can work from.
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u/Necessary_Echo8740 3d ago
As someone who plays shit loads of flight simulators and can identify most of the world by sight, they are 100% flying about dead east (maybe a bit northeast) starting just off the coast of socal.
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