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  • The fact that you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice in one night is about as obvious

  • as the fact that Epstein didn't kill himself.

  • It's all because of time.

  • As in, the time Epstein's powerful co-conspirators would have had to take to go through a trial

  • before ultimately bribing the jury to get let off.

  • Murder was just more convenient.

  • Now for the two New Year's Eve thing, all you've got to do is go to a place like New

  • Buffalo, Michigan, which is in the UTC - 5 timezone, then, after midnight, pop on down

  • to Michigan City, Indiana, which is at UTC - 6, for New Year's Eve round two.

  • Now, I'm sure New Buffalo and Michigan City have some great New Year's Eve celebrations,

  • but you can do this whole two New Year's Even thing at an ever bigger scale.

  • For example, you can do round one in Hong Kongwhere they do this amazing 4d fully

  • immersive fireworks experiencethen hop on Cathay Pacific flight 872 at 12:55 AM and

  • fly east over the international date line to land in San Francisco at 8:50 PM the day

  • before, December 31st, for New Year's Eve round two.

  • But of course, just as the Dutch said when they discovered Australia in 1606, we can

  • do better than that.

  • Those living in a land down under are surely familiar with their country's screwy timezones.

  • This bit is at UTC + 8 with no daylight saving time, this bit is at UTC + 9:30 except during

  • daylight saving time when it's at UTC + 10:30.

  • This bit and this other tiny bit is always at UTC + 9:30, and then there's a bunch

  • of other arbitrary rules for the rest of the states.

  • Basically, nobody knows what's going on, everyone's confused, it's all chaos, but

  • it does make for some fun tripoints.

  • Coincidently, that's also apparently what was said when Britain and France carved up

  • the Ottoman Empire.

  • In summer, Australia has five different timezones meaning that at Cameron Corner, Poeppel Corner,

  • and Surveyor General Corner, three timezones meet at one point.

  • Therefore, at any one of these places, you could celebrate the new year three times just

  • by walking a few feet over the lines.

  • Although, your celebration would be in the middle of a desert surrounded by a bunch of

  • wild animals and a few dusty humans, though I guess that's pretty much Burning Man.

  • Surely we can do better, though.

  • For example, Cameron and Poeppel Corners don't look too far apart.

  • What if you just drove between them after New Year's round threeand they're

  • 21 hours apart.

  • Australia's crazy.

  • So that's probably the most New Year's Eve's that a normal person can celebrate

  • in a night without spending crazy money.

  • So let's rephrase the question: let's say you're Jeff Bezos, with an infinite

  • supply of tax-free money.

  • How many New Year's Eve's can you celebrate?

  • Well, Jeff, when New Year's Eve happens at Cameron corner, New South Wales is first

  • to celebrate, followed by South Australia 30 minutes later, followed then by Queensland

  • 30 minutes after that, but then Western Australia's midnight is two hours behind that.

  • So, if you could get from here to here in less than two hours, you could add a fourth

  • New Year's Eve into the mix.

  • We just need an airport.

  • This one's only 70 miles or 100 kilometers away from Cameron Corner so it should be a

  • quick and easy tripand it's a six-hour drive.

  • Just build some roads Australia.

  • But remember, we are all Jeff Bezos on this blessed day, so we're going to charter a

  • helicopter.

  • Queensland is the last of these three states to hit midnight so you don't have to be

  • at the corner for when Queensland enters the New Year, you can be anywhere in the state,

  • so just after South Australia's midnight, you start flying your helicopter east, staying

  • within Queensland.

  • That'll take less than 30 minutes, in a fast helicopter at least, then you land, celebrate

  • the Queenslandic New Year's Eve, then fly south the 15 minutes to Tibooburra Aerodrome,

  • in New South Wales.

  • There you hop in a private jet and fly the hour and a half west to Forrest Airport in

  • Western Australia.

  • You'll get there just before their midnight, making it your fourth New Year's Eve of

  • the night.

  • Unfortunately, there's nowhere further west that is close enough to make it faster than

  • your private jet can fly west.

  • But of course, there's the international date line.

  • So, fly the 13 hours north-east towards the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and land in Unalaskawhich

  • despite its name is still very much Alaskawhich is at UTC - 9.

  • There, hop in a seaplane to take you over to Akutan, the neighboring island, since there's

  • no airport on it.

  • It's at UTC - 8, so once that New Year's is done hop back on the seaplane, fly back

  • to Unalaska, and celebrate your last New Year's Eve of the night.

  • Ignoring the fact that, like, the North and South Pole exist, that is possibly, but honestly

  • probably not the most number of times you can celebrate New Year's Eve in one night.

  • I'm sure the YouTube comments will do their magic and tell me why I'm wrong.

  • So let's say that you, Jeff Bezos, actually go through with this plan and fly all around

  • the world in order to get an extra five New Year's Eve's in.

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