You may also want to consider packing some extra fuel, in case either:Ī. It should consist of, at the very least, a lander that can touch down on the surface and two heat shields, one at the nosecone and one near the engine. Only consider building an upper stage if you want to perform a landing. You could either launch it with one enormous rocket in one go, or you could launch the middle- and upper stage into orbit with separate launches, and then dock them together in orbit. To perform a successful landing on Eve you will need a large space ship. So sit back, relax and enjoy the flight.īy the way, and in case you haven’t already figured it out, here is the answer to the riddle: the scientist takes planes to different time zones.An Eve-capable rocket, separating from its primary stage. The best way to approach the travel experience and not get a headache trying to zone in on dates and times is to let several useful online tools do the math for you. Pretty cool, right?įrom extending your birthday celebrations or chasing New Year’s Eve around the world, flying allows everyone to become a time traveller. Your straight line would then become an arc. Visualize this: draw a straight line between New York and London on a three-dimensional globe, then flatten it out into a two-dimensional map. Sphere-shaped, the best way to fly between two points is on an arc as opposed to a point A to B straight flight path. While this sage advice is in many instances sound, when it comes to flying routes, a straight line is not the shortest path to your destination. You have probably heard the old saying that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Especially when you include Daylight Savings Time and the fact that there are 37 different “local times” in use around the world. However, when you take into account the International Date Line (IDL) and the fact that several time zones are less than an hour apart, you have 27 time zones in total.īesides the additional zones, it is also worth noting that time zones and local time are not the same. How many people believe that 1 hour equals “one” time zone? To all but the most seasoned traveller, this seems like a reasonable assumption. Talk about back-to-the-future! Or is it ahead-to-the-future? In the meantime, and depending on your time of departure, when you fly west with a 12 hour time difference, you are actually heading towards yesterday! Flying east you are heading toward tomorrow. Simple answer: time zones in which some are only 30 to 45-minutes apart. Like trying to figure out the equation for time travel, you may be wondering how a 19 hour flight results in a 12 hour time difference. The route which will take travellers from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, will see passengers depart Singapore at 10:00 AM on a Sunday and arrive at their destination in Newark at 10:00 PM local time Saturday. While 57 seconds is the shortest commercial flight in the world, this past October the record for the longest non-stop commercial flight is now 19 hours. You will not need to reset your watch on this trip.
Located in the Northern Isles of Scotland, it takes just 57 seconds to make the 1.7-mile flight. But, on one commercial flight, you can depart and arrive at your destination in 57 seconds give or take headwinds.įor a $51 airfare, a Scottish commercial airline will fly you between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray.
Warp speed – which at 670,616,629 miles per hour is travelling faster than the speed of light, is not yet possible. No, we are not talking about some new secret jet aircraft that can travel at warp speed. Seeing that we are talking about time, is it possible to depart one place and arrive in another in what seems like the blink of an eye? How is this possible?Īs you contemplate the answer to this classic riddle – for those who can’t wait, we do provide the answer at the end of this article – we will share with you some fun facts that will help you to better understand what it means to cross multiple zones on a single flight. A scientist discovers that he can travel forward and backwards in time.
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