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TAR 20 Ep 4 "Taste Your Salami" (Turin, Italy)
apskip:
kiki,
There is a place where in its time zone you get sunset around 6pm on 12/4/2011, but northern Italy is at a much higher latitude and it's only a little west of the center of the European time zone.
Official sunset for Torino 12/4/2011 was 448pm.
My research to find a city in the U.S. at the far western edge of its time zone which might have a relatively late sunset basically failed. I tried a number of different alternatives but even Escanaba on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and El Paso failed to get any later than around 5pm on that date.
My own sure thing is the Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, which is part of the Greenwich Mean time zone (along with Portugal and Great Britain). Sunset there was 608pm on 12/4/2011 because it is a bit west of the center of that time zone and because it has the low latitude of 28 degrees.
This is an interesting issue to a geographer like me (I realize that few others care), so I will look in countries with single time zones such as India and China to see what I can find.
DrRox:
--- Quote from: apskip on March 11, 2012, 05:45:03 PM ---
My research to find a city in the U.S. at the far western edge of its time zone which might have a relatively late sunset basically failed. I tried a number of different alternatives but even Escanaba on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and El Paso failed to get any later than around 5pm on that date.
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It helps to have a correct data point. El Paso is at the far eastern edge of its time zone. El Paso is in the Mountain Time Zone....not Central Time Zone. Just because El Paso is in Texas does not make it Central Time Zone. You can verify this by checking world clocks and test El Paso against Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Lubbock, Waco, Amarillo or Midland/Odessa. You will find a one hour difference between El Paso and the rest of those cities.
supah:
--- Quote from: supah3ro on March 05, 2012, 03:52:47 AM ---now i know i might be WAY out of line but I'm SPECULATING that the helicopter task might be a FAST FORWARD
i know it seems ages since we last had a FF but i think this season will bring it back
but i have my reasons:
- we know Art and J.J. won Leg 3, and they might have a huge lead over the other teams
- we know from evidence that Art and J.J. win Leg 4
- if they arrive first in Italy, they might take the option of the FF, even if they screw it, the roadblock should be close to it (FF and RB at Lingotto)
- the place they are performing this helicopter task opposite a helipad looks quite small, and if it was the place of a Detour/Route Info/Roadblock, i wouldn't imagine all 8 teams performing the task in there
- if they won the fast forward it would explain their 1st place win in Italy and i would think if they didn't do it, other teams would beat them in the regular challenges
i AM confident with this speculation, but my only setback is that the FF seems kind of easy/crappy
please tell me what you think of this
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I WAS RIGHT!!! yay :yess:
georgiapeach:
--- Quote from: supah3ro on March 11, 2012, 11:58:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: supah3ro on March 05, 2012, 03:52:47 AM ---now i know i might be WAY out of line but I'm SPECULATING that the helicopter task might be a FAST FORWARD
i know it seems ages since we last had a FF but i think this season will bring it back
but i have my reasons:
- we know Art and J.J. won Leg 3, and they might have a huge lead over the other teams
- we know from evidence that Art and J.J. win Leg 4
- if they arrive first in Italy, they might take the option of the FF, even if they screw it, the roadblock should be close to it (FF and RB at Lingotto)
- the place they are performing this helicopter task opposite a helipad looks quite small, and if it was the place of a Detour/Route Info/Roadblock, i wouldn't imagine all 8 teams performing the task in there
- if they won the fast forward it would explain their 1st place win in Italy and i would think if they didn't do it, other teams would beat them in the regular challenges
i AM confident with this speculation, but my only setback is that the FF seems kind of easy/crappy
please tell me what you think of this
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I WAS RIGHT!!! yay :yess:
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You were ABSOULTELY right!! :yess:
Jobby:
Crappy FF, but did I see more than one set of "helicopter tools" there? That means whoever wants to do the FF can try for the FF right? Or is it just me? If everyone can attempt the FF then it's worth it.
I gained nothing about Italy from this episode. It just went from the best to the worst episode. :gaah:
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