# The Biggest Drawing in The World: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622 "2008-05-26T05:29:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/1 "2008-05-26T05:29:11Z")
[The Biggest Drawing in The World:](http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/the_biggest_drawing_in_the_world_created_with_the_help_of_gps_and_dhl-2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/2 "2008-05-26T15:43:51Z")
Whoa. Bet you the ancient peoples who drew the Nazca lines are going to come back just so they can out-draw these people. It’ll be like a really weird version of Eurovision. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/3 "2008-05-26T16:04:13Z")
So when I follow the path of the briefcase, there’ll be a mark? Will it be visible from space? If there’s no mark, it’s just a virtual drawing. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/4 "2008-05-26T16:09:04Z")
Oddly enough, it was supposed to go express from LA to NYC. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/5 "2008-05-26T16:11:54Z")
I’m with **Sunspace**. It was an interesting stunt, but I don’t see how it qualifies as a “drawing” under any definition of the word. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/6 "2008-05-26T16:13:42Z")
I wonder how much the artist would have spent on shipping had it not been an ad campaign? ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/7 "2008-05-26T16:52:17Z")
How did they get the curls out over the north Atlantic and Arctic? Was there one plane or boat that just flew/sailed the briefcase out over the water and back again? It doesn’t look like a very efficient route. Certainly not how I would want a package of mine shipped! ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/8 "2008-05-26T17:06:55Z")
ya, that is as much a drawing as [this simulation of a flight path](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080429.html) is. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/9 "2008-05-26T17:45:04Z")
That’s nothing. Last year I drew an ellipse roughly 186 million miles wide. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/10 "2008-05-26T18:36:38Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] So when I follow the path of the briefcase, there’ll be a mark? Will it be visible from space? If there’s no mark, it’s just a virtual drawing. Sorry. [/QUOTE] I agree. It’s “virtual.” Neat trick, but nothing permanent. ---
**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/11 "2008-05-28T12:59:27Z")
It’s a fake, apparently. No big surprise there. From [engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/28/surprise-biggest-drawing-now-biggest-gps-hoax-in-the-world/) and [wired](http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/05/artist-says-he.html). Did he think everyone would just believe him without actually checking to see if it was possible/real? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/12 "2008-05-28T13:38:46Z")
I’m not surprised it’s a fake. But you’d think that they could’ve at least delivered something over a smaller area to actually perform the tasks needed for a large scale “virtual drawing”. Just saying you did something seems really lame. For comparison, here’s what the author claims is “possibly the largest art reproduction” of one of the Nazca figures. He wanted to show it could be done without the aid of UFOs or primitrive hot-air balloons: [http://www.onagocag.com/nazca.html](http://www.onagocag.com/nazca.html) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/450622/13 "2008-05-28T14:13:37Z")
[QUOTE=USCDiver] How did they get the curls out over the north Atlantic and Arctic? [/QUOTE] That’s what shouted “fake” to me. I don’t care how explicit of directions you give to DHL they are only going to deliver from point to point, not fly circles out over the ocean because you told them to do so.