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From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
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Subject: Re: == No Subject ==
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Date: 16 Jun 91 13:46:37 EDT
References: <1991Jun16.125922.7401@demon.co.uk> <SHAFER.91Jun16095027@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
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In-reply-to: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)

In article <SHAFER.91Jun16095027@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>, shafer@skipper (Mary Shafer) writes:
>
>In article <1991Jun16.125922.7401@demon.co.uk> printf@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Stirling) writes:
>
>   #In article <2955@ke4zv.UUCP> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
>   #
>   ##The only manmade structure that can be seen with the naked eye from
>   space,
>   ##the Great Wall of China, has been around for a fair amount of time
>   in
>   #.......
>   #
>   >BZZZT...Wrong. TONS of stuff is visible from LEO. Do you think that
>   >Manhattan or LA suddenly become invisible because you are 120 miles
>   >up? Perhaps the Great Wall is the only object visible from the Moon
>   or
>   >somesuch distance.
>   >
>   BZZZZZT,BZZZZZZT WRONG WRONG WRONG.  8^)
>
>           The Great Wall of China is the only thing visible from space
>           with
>                   "the naked eye."
>
>You're quite incorrect.  I asked Gordon Fullerton (you know, STS-2, etc)
>about this and he said that the Great Wall isn't even visible in LEO.
>However, quite a few man-made structures are visible from LEO, including
>dams, airports, freeways in the deserts, and cities.

STS-2 carried Engle and Truly, n'est-ce pas?  Fullerton first flew on Faith 7.

(I know, it was Gordon Cooper, but we seem to be stuck in one falsehood for
every truth mode right now.)

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