# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4778
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4778 "2025-08-05T19:38:03Z")
Sorta relevant thread from a decade ago: > [@What's the longest distance any airplane has ever taxied/traveled on land?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-distance-any-airplane-has-ever-taxied-traveled-on-land/747895): > > See subject query. Yes, that thoroughly inane one. What GQ was invented for. Here’s a 20yo thread from shortly after I joined. > [@TLD's 747 Bus Service (Signal Driver)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tlds-747-bus-service-signal-driver/248952): > > So I build a runway. A bloody long one. A couple thousand k’s of tarmac across the Australian interior. I take a standard Boeing 747 and drive the bugger along it as fast as I can. In other words, I do not want to take off, so I set the flight control surfaces accordingly, and go nutso with the four Rolls Royce engines. The questions: Is this even possible? How easy/hard would it be for an experienced pilot to do this? How insanely dangerous would it be? What effect would sea level operation… Should I be concerned that I remembered both my posts and just had to go search up the thread they went into? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574)._