So someone asked if there were actually five hundred miles and yes. I made a miles line using five miles. Using that, I made a miles square. Each miles square has fifty miles. There are ten miles squares. Thus, five hundred miles.

[Image description: a screencap from the music video of the song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles" by The Proclaimers as they song, "But I would walk," accompanied by an image of 500 tiny Miles O'Brien's from the chest up. /end image description]