Frédéric JacobsApr 22

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Show threadMaarten SneepApr 22

@fj @herbert_tiemens If we estimate the length of the swing at 2.5 meters, then the period of the swing is 3.17 seconds, so the back-and-forth is 18.9 times per minute.

Did you try it, or did you calculate it?

Show threadJonathan
@mrtnsnp It's a quote from the article
Apr 23 at 4:37amWeb