Talk:Raven VS Twilight Sparkle/@comment-33064970-20180218140104

Just did some "useless" calculations in response to this video (which is in response to  this tweet).

Because Dash cannot wait for the Internet to search and download the picture of the Great Wall of China for his project report, he ran into the Great Wall of China to take the picture himself.

He took the route to China through Egypt. It is likely he took the same route back home.

By some Google Map estimation, the distance from the United States to Egypt is aroung 9375km, and from Egypt to China around 8125km.

As Dash ran into China to take the photo of the Great Wall of China and then went back home, he was likely travelling at around 2 x (9375+8125) km = 35000km = 3.5 x 10^8 m.

We now go back to the computer. It took about 1 second for the meter to show the image search loading process from 3% to 4% during Dash's waiting. The downloading speed is then estimated to be 1%/s. (I may be highballing the downloading speed here.)

By the time Dash move from the US to China and then back home, the meter jumps from 4% to 21%, which gives us the rough time spent in the journey time: 17s. We further subtract 1s spent on choosing the scene, taking the photo and checking the photo quality, and we get the time Dash actually running was 16s.

Therefore, the demonstrated running speed of Dash in the ad was (3.5 x 10^8 m) / 16s = 2.1875 x 10^7 m/s.