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Explain it to me
Jun. 2nd, 2004 12:54 pmMaybe (definitely) I am retarded when it comes to geography and the curvature of the Earth, I mean, I found Ben Affleck's nemesis machine in Paycheck (a contraption that has a lens so potent that it can see around the curviture of the universe and back to where it started from, and thus predict the future) as puzzling, yet intuitively understandable, as Foucault's pendulum (the thing hanging in the Arts et Metiers not the Eco book) or seasonal thermocline.
What I don't understand is how it is possible that a flight from New York to Quito can take 7 hours, yet every single flight between Quito and San Francisco and even Los Angeles, which is so far South it's almost on the other continent itself, takes no less than 11 hours. They are all cities positioned along the same Pacific coastline, whereas New York is way North and East and overlooking the Atlantic. Neither route has direct flights. So how is this possible?
What I don't understand is how it is possible that a flight from New York to Quito can take 7 hours, yet every single flight between Quito and San Francisco and even Los Angeles, which is so far South it's almost on the other continent itself, takes no less than 11 hours. They are all cities positioned along the same Pacific coastline, whereas New York is way North and East and overlooking the Atlantic. Neither route has direct flights. So how is this possible?
