From Boston To Italy...
Season 3 Episode 25:
Rescue Me
Airdate:
May 09 1985 |
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Diane is of in Italy with Frasier to
get married and Sam is going nuts. He finally asks "Does anyone
know how long it takes to get to Italy from here?"
Unfortunately for him, Cliff is quick
with an answer. |
Sam, you can
make it from here to Italy in 8 hours 37 minutes 22 seconds with
a good tailwind.
(Sam: "Seriously?")
Well, unless
you take the polar route in which case you run into those
convex currents created by the Aurora Borealis.
(Carla: "You're
a roaring borealis.")
The truth:
Cliff's guess at the flight time is pretty close, it's about 8
hours and the extra 37 minutes and 22 seconds gives Sam time to
get to the airport.
That's about all Cliff came close on though.
The flight from Boston to Italy does not take the Polar route,
nor are there any convex currents of the Aurora Borealis.
Here is what the Aurora Borealis really is;
The sun emits charged particles, ions, that travel out into
space at high speeds. They form clouds called a plasma. The
stream of plasma coming from the sun is known as the solar wind.
As the solar wind interacts with the edge of the earth's
magnetic field, some of the particles are trapped by it and they
follow the lines of magnetic force down into the ionosphere, the
section of the earth's atmosphere that extends from about 60 to
600 kilometers above the Earth's surface. When the particles
collide with the gases in the ionosphere they start to glow
creating the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
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Some
Borealis
facts:
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They occur about sixty or seventy miles above Earth.
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The occur along ring-shaped regions around the north and
south geomagnetic poles.
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The light is produced by a high-vacuum electrical discharge.
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