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JNK on 03 June 2015
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sc94597 said:
JNK said:

ok even if we say hes probl like 2min/km (which is really fast) ill do some calculation.

 

so from left to right it would be 15km. So 5km length for each continent and like 2km width for each should be realistic if you compare to the map. All continents are similar in size. So ill get 10km^2 per continent x 5 continents im still at 50km^2. Thats smaller then GTA and around same size as skyrim. I see no way this could be 200km^2. Then the character would run 30sek for 1 km which would be 120 km/h =75miles/hour. Thats unrealistic.

Firstly, using squares to approximate circles and ellipses is a poor way to find area of these continents. 

Secondly, at 1.5 x speed on earth, the average runner could run 1.6 kilometers at a speed of ~ 7 m/s (15 mph) before they get tired. That would make the total distance between the points in the OP approximately 13 km. If we are to assume all five continents are the same area, and we are to look at the time it takes for him to reach the second continent from the first, we get the first continent to be 70 seconds(1:10)* 9 (sped up nine times)* 7 m/s * 1000 m/km = 4.41 kilometers across just that one continent. Now if we take the radius to be 2.2 and approximate it as a circle (seems alright for that continent) we get its area to be pi*(2.2)^2 = 15 km^2. If we are to assume that the continents are similar in size, then that would be 15 *5 = 75 km^2, which is about twice the size of Skyrim. However, some continents might be larger than others. For example the green one and white ones seem much larger than the desert one (which is the 15 km^2 estimate.) 

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By the way, my prior estimate using the other method for the Desert contintent was 

Desert: 17 km^2

So that is pretty close to what we seem to have here. 


the continents are far from a circle though. they are much more lanky then  wide. The 15km 4.41km are NOT the diameter. Calculate with squares is more accurate then with circles in this case. 

In the end it might be something between 50 and 75km, still far away from 400