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TAR8 EP3 ~"I Don't Kiss , I Make out "
supsandalee:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on October 10, 2005, 10:41:58 PM ---
--- Quote --- that two buses were used one leaving at 3PM and the other at 6PM and the trip took 9 hours.
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I think I posted that in Sucks a while back. |( I can't remember how I got the 9 hours because now when I run the to/from on Google Maps it comes back 11 hours plus.
The scenario I am currently believing is that the two buses came (together or separately) as reported just before midnight (first bus). And then, they made the teams wait individual amounts of time that correspond with when they had finished the last task in Charleston. The logic I am trying to scape together here is that (because of Dennis) TPTB decided to round up the teams and ship them to Huntsville as a unit and then let them go according to where they stood in Charleston.
Because, didn't some article say that the SUVs left the Huntsville visitor center between 1 and 5 am? You know, individually, not as a mass of eight. Or, it could be two masses of 4 teams with the first four at 1 am and the last 4 at 5 am. :unde:
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This is the article:
"The teams were expected to arrive at the Space & Rocket Center sometime in the afternoon of July 11th but were delayed because of weather conditions. Eight black Suburban SUV's were parked at the Huntsville Convention & Visitors Bureau awaiting the teams arrival. Employees at the Visitors Center and the Parking & Public Transportation Department didn't know what was going on. The cars were parked in their parking lot after business hours and were gone shortly after the workday began the next day. The first teams did not arrive until about midnight and the last team came in around 4-5 a.m."
What still bugs me is that the last team came in around 4-5 a.m. describes a single team and I don't know how that is if they arrived on two buses.
puddin:
banzai you can have anything you want ;)
Good spoiling you guys .. nothing to add but this might help ?
'Amazing Race' makes pit stop at Space Center
About midnight Monday, with Hurricane Dennis' last breath soaking Huntsville, there was a flurry of activity at the Huntsville-Madison County Convention & Visitors Bureau at 500 Church St.
Between midnight and 4 a.m., one by one, a fleet of eight to 10 GMC Yukons rolled out of the parking lot and sloshed down Interstate 565, got off at exit 15 and headed toward the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
The popular reality show zipped into town Monday night and, after a series of challenges involving the Aviation Challenge centrifuge and a computer station at the Space Center, host Phil Keoghan counted off the contestants - "You're first, you're second. ..." Then, after a much-needed rest at the Huntsville Marriott, the teams packed up Tuesday afternoon and headed to Talladega.
Upon arriving at the Visitors Bureau, the contestants were given clues to find the Space Center. Once they found the museum, the teams went to Aviation Challenge for their first challenge that involved the centrifuge - an astronaut trainer that provides 3 1/2 to four Gs. After that, the contestants raced on foot to Rocket Park under the replica of the shuttle, where they were given clues to find a computer station inside the museum.
The teams completed their two challenges and then went to their rooms at the Huntsville Marriott. They were then given a 12-hour break before leaving Tuesday afternoon for their next challenge: Talladega.
http://www.al.com/entertainment/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1121246191244210.xml&coll=1
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NASA DISSES 'AMAZING' DEAL
By DON KAPLAN
"Racers" trained like astronauts for the competition.
July 14, 2005 -- OFFICIALS at cash-strapped NASA refused to sign $10 million confidentiality agreements with CBS' "Amazing Race" when the show passed through one of its facilities in the deep South earlier this week.
A fleet of SUVs driven by contestants in the eighth installment of "Race" rumbled through the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., Monday night.
There, the racers were pitted against each other in challenges that utilized several of the astronaut-training devices, including a centrifuge that simulates the intense pressure of extra gravity during a rocket launch, according to an Alabama newspaper report.
But officials at the space center refused to sign the standard confidentiality agreements — and were tight-lipped yesterday about details of what took place when the show touched down in their neighborhood.
Earlier, the "Amazing" racers had arrived at the Huntsville-Madison County convention center on two buses and jumped into the SUVs, group by group.
All of them were drenched by the remnants of Hurricane Dennis and spent the night in a local Marriott.
"Race" reportedly started filming last Thursday with 11 teams. By the time the race reached the Alabama town — whose inhabitants work mostly for the military or NASA — one team had already been eliminated.
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I guess I don't need to be quiet anymore. The reason the USSRC didn't sign the agreement is because they have about 175 employees right now and it would be impossible to keep them all quiet and hold the center responsible for 1 stupid loud mouthed minor who is just working a part-time temporary job for the summer.It kind of ticks me off that the thing I have the closest ties to (no, I don't work there) so far has the biggest spoiler. At least the higher ups kept their mouths shut.
I have to say I was trying really hard to see the teams, I missed the last team by about 40 minutes. Locals would have seen them any time from 12 - 4 pm on Tuesday afternoon. I thought they were driving suburbans, but I didn't see any big cars with camera crews.
I'm also glad that the world will see Alabam has more to offer than rednecks and cotton.
Hi to all the other Twopers from North Alabama!
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,5916.15.html
puddin:
:bump: ..because banzai did a great job with this :<(
--- Quote from: banzai on October 05, 2005, 01:16:59 AM ---updated version
The remaining eight to 10 four-member teams arrived here [Space Camp] late Monday from somewhere in South Carolina on two buses.
Upon arriving at the Visitors Bureau, the contestants were given clues to find the Space Center.
Once they found the museum, the teams went to Aviation Challenge for their first challenge that involved the centrifuge - an astronaut trainer that provides 3 1/2 to four Gs.
Teams race on foot to the Rocket Park (in the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama).
In the maze, teams have to find the clue box under the replica of the shuttle,
where they were given clues to find a computer station inside the museum.
The teams completed their two challenges and then went to their rooms at the Huntsville Marriott (5 Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama 35805).
They were then given a 12-hour break before leaving Tuesday afternoon for their next challenge: Talladega, Alabama.
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kraziladi:
Hi everyone :<(
I have been so busy this summer, just now getting a chance to get caught up on RTV.
I was doing a bit of looking for that darned mission/adobe/pueblo style building. I came across a house for sale in Scottsdale, AZ. There is a picture of a stable, that is "similar" to the mystery structure. Maybe puddin or banzai can put them side by side in a post. Now, I know it isn't exactly what we are looking for, but possibly a stable of some type near the border. I liked the idea that it could be from the movie set in that area, where alot of westerns were filmed.
Hope this helps a teeny bit! :tada:
Can't seem to get the attachment to work??? Help :sad:
I will try to PM puddin with it???
gingerman28:
I wonder if Phil will give us any hint of the delays due to Hurricane Dennis in tonight's voice overs???
The teams may have been planning to fly to Huntsville the afternoon of July 11, do the Space Camp bit and then have a usual overnight pit stop at the Marriott Hotel. But this was changed when airlines were cancelling flights so TPTB hired two buses which then were scheduled to leave at the times that the two original airline flights left. A chartered bus probably did the trip quicker (9 hours) than a regularly scheduled trip with numerous stops (11 hours). But if some teams did not arrive at NASA until 5AM, even if they completed the two tasks quickly, they probably wouldn't be leaving Tuesday afternoon until possibly 7 or 8PM, and there is a note that the teams had all left by 4:30PM.
Delta Airlines had flights leaving CHS for HSV at 12:47PM and 3:47PM arriving at 3:36PM and 7:15PM via connecting flights in ATL (no direct flights). So it MAY have been that teams were supposed to get on these two flights (6 people a team means a lot of tickets for each flight) but due to Dennis the flights were cancelled so TPTB chartered two buses leaving CHS with the same three-hour difference.(Another pair of flights via Delta coulld have left at 2:09PM and 5:18PM; again with a three hour difference.) Of course, all of this is just speculation but would account for why the two buses would leave three hours apart.
Still no idea where the missing girls are - perhaps they had such a good time with the soldiers in Middleburg they missed the morning flights???
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