Google says Earth's diameter at the equator is 7926.28 miles (12756.1 km). So yo...

mahipal · on Nov 28, 2008

Er, and that distance is only important if you're going to drill through the Earth to see them. ;)

Otherwise the distance is upper-bounded around 12400 miles. At any rate, happy Thanksgiving wherever you are.

astrec · on Nov 28, 2008

Indeed, and as the crow (or 747-400 or A380) flies we're 10372 miles from the fam: MEL->JFK

vizard · on Nov 28, 2008

Unless you are an astronaut.