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TAR16 - EP 8: You're Like Jason Bourne, Right? (Malaysia)
Chateau d If:
Sorry to be of no help here. I've working on this for a while now but I have to clock out. Not enough time to get the resolution needed to sort out the teams.
I will add that this detour location (incense):
is called the Ti Kong Temple at least by one tourist. Note the matching swastika fretwork. But the tourist did not place the shot correctly in GE.
Boingo's picture of the entrance to "Chang Qing Pavillion" is a perfect match. Two names, same place? :duno: But Boingo's GE spot for the shot does not match as best as I can tell. (gone now) And I can't find it either :groan:!
All I can find is where it looks like it is but the satelite image is so old that it is just a grassy spot when it was taken.
That's the thing I need for getting time though.
Neobie:
It's all the same place! :lol: We're running in circles around something we found all the way back on Page 6!
Chang Qing Pavillion (長慶殿, Changqing Dian, Palace of Eternal Celebration) is a building within the temple compound called Thnee Kong Thua (天公壇, Tiangong Tan, Altar of the Jade Emperor). Ti Kong is just another transliteration of Thnee Kong...
The temple was recently renovated and the steps are newly added, so we can't find it on GE. The temple buildings themselves are at the bottom of Chateau's map image, where the "Penang Hill" label is. Since the steps are exactly perpendicular to the temple gates running down to the street, we can easily plot it out on the imagery we have...
Neobie:
Testing out my rudimentary mathematical skills... The stairs of the temple (refer to map in above post) are angled at 23° clockwise from a East-West orientation, while the shadows in the Carol/Brandy shot are angled approximately 21° from the stairway. The sun is therefore shining at 90°+23°+21°=134° clockwise of North. Putting this angle into our racing date of 14 Dec gives us an approximate time of 11.07am.
The following analysis assumes that the rack of incense is placed parallel to the stone wall of the temple. The angle between the shadow and the rack falls at around 48°. The complementary angle of 48° is 42° (as the wall is perpendicular to the stairs). This leads us to the sun shining at an angle of 90°+23°+42°=155° clockwise of North. The resultant time of 12.18pm may not be precise, but I can postulate that Carol/Brandy are ahead of Daniel/Jordan.
Note that Malaysia has a single time zone and that Penang is almost as far west as you can go on Peninsula Malaysia, meaning that the sun doesn't shine from straight south until about 1.14pm.
Waits for the episode to prove the utter incompetence of my basic geometry... :lol:
georgiapeach:
Thank you Chateau and Neobie!! :hearts:
gator27:
Hmmmm. I've been curious why Phil asked a few teams who they would like to see out of the race. And the answer was Carol & Brandy. What was that foreshadowing? Carol & Brandy in first place or last?
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