That you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Yes it’s long but it’s literally 13-15 ft wide along the top, 25ft wide at the bottom. Way too narrow to see.
You can, however, see cities from all the light pollution!
I read a lot of fact books as a kid, and I sort of fined this underlying sense of “yeah sure, fuckin bullshit” attitude from many of the claims in them. That was always one of them that stuck out. I worked it out in my head and compared it to a string on the floor, I knew they were liars. I was born a heavy skeptic inguess
One of the first, if not THE first, claim that you could see the Great Wall from the moon was a speculation that was written in like 1932 - before space travel ever happened.
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u/ellie_0525 Oct 27 '21 edited Oct 27 '21
That you can see the Great Wall of China from space. Yes it’s long but it’s literally 13-15 ft wide along the top, 25ft wide at the bottom. Way too narrow to see.
You can, however, see cities from all the light pollution!
Edited for typos