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re: More Impressive: Egyptian Pyramids or Great Wall of China
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:30 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:30 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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I don't know where that statement originated, but it is false.
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One of the earliest known references to this myth appears in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley. Stukeley wrote that, "This mighty wall of four score miles [130 km] in length is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the Moon."[
Dammit Will!
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The apparent width of the Great Wall from the Moon is the same as that of a human hair viewed from 3 km (2 mi) away. To see the wall from the Moon would require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal (20/20) vision.[63] Unsurprisingly, no lunar astronaut has ever claimed to have
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