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The US has so much space (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I agree, our infrastructure is definitely fucked. But the US has ~10 million sq km of space to France's ~552,000 sq km.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Europe has 10 sq km. Let's not compare pommes to oranges.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Right, but they were the ones comparing a country to a state to begin with, so I compared a country to a country. If you want to compare continents... That's a different story.