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If they're doing this in stages I'm sort of surprised they're going east instead of "west with the night" or rather day. If you choose when you start a journey
by Symmetry 10y ago
If they're doing this in stages I'm sort of surprised they're going east instead of "west with the night" or rather day. If you choose when you start a journey you can better maximize the ratio of day to night. Of course, the tradeoff is that both are longer which increases your need for batteries, so maybe that's more important. Especially cross the Pacific, I guess, where they had to travel for much longer.
- PetitPrince 10y agoThey probably taking advantage of jet streams. They flows West to East.
- tonfa 10y agoAren't winds way better going east (direction of jet streams).
- TheAdamist 10y agoThe jetstream flows east, I imagine they might be trying to make use of that, or at least not have to fight it.