LR - early war practice anyone?

[N.Foster]

I think the time shift comes from the wierdness of the Staked Plains. Not only is
it in an area known for alien sightings, but is also the group that spawned
Furyban.



Sluggy wrote:

> Conor na Mara wrote:
>
> > 11 hour drive answer I expected to get. What I found that was interesting is
> > that according to map quest it takes 3 minutes longer to drive home than it
> > does to drive there.
>
> For once, I feel at an advantage over Conor, being nearly an hour closer
> to Clovis than he is, but this east-bound path length problem is
> intriguing....
>
> At first, I thought that the rotation of the Earth could account for
> this three minute discrepancy, but looking at the globe on axis from the
> north pole, it would be spinning counterclockwise. All logic would
> indicate that a vehicle travelling east would in fact be going faster,
> like walking up the up escalator.
>
> Upon further analysis, I see that the path involves US84. Just east of
> Lubbock, this stretch of road stretches indefinitely, due in part to the
> <sarcasm>lush scenery</sarcasm>. If it were not for the occasional
> milepost, pumpjack or irrigation well, one could reasonably assume that
> they were driving on the outside surface of a slowly rotating drum
> painted with a checky pattern of browns, greens and golds.
>
> Now, understandably, this effect would be most pronounced travelling
> _to_ Lubbock, but perhaps my glee at departing Lubbock in the past
> overwhelmed my senses such that I did not notice the delay heading
> eastward.
>
> Then again, perhaps MapQuest is simply taking the counterflowing
> jetstream into account...  :)
>
> Sluggy!
>
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