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[bellinghman]

A kilometre is not a unit of area.

C'mon guys, do you mean 60 square kilometres, 60 kilometres square, 60 kilometres radius, or what? Unfortunately, being somewhat literalist, my mental image involves the area being covered by a Peano curve approximation using a strip the width of a road and 60 kilometres long. My mental abilities won't tell me how much area that actually is.

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[timill]

Having read the article, I'd guess that they mean a circle 60 km in diameter.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Possibly. Or radius, as per one of my guesses. A 60 km radius circle from a high balloon sounds eminently believable to me. The problem is there's a factor of 4 difference between the radius and diameter areas.