Magellan (a new unit of measurement)
I was thinking about how much I have flown this year while sleeping on the floor at the Newark airport (http://yfrog.com/eipunecj).
I often hear folks talk about 100k miles, but that is not all that tangible to me.
I was thinking that the circumference of the Earth (~40,000 kilometers/~25,000 miles) seems like a much better way to calibrate distance flown.
Two obvious names came to mind: Magellan or Eratosthenes.
Magellan it is.
It looks like I am going to end the year with around 4 magellans in the air.
How many magellans will you fly this year?