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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: visible civilization
Message-ID: <1355@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 14:00:16 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 14:00:16 1985
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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> From: Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse>
> 
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
>    The California Aqueduct and Great Wall are visible from the Moon.  At
>    night, it is quite easy to see civilization's lights from high orbit.
>    Of course by galactic standards, that's a "relatively low height."
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
>    I didn't think the Great Wall was visible from that high, though I could
>    certainly be wrong. 
> 
>    Alastair Milne

I just recently read an article (somewhere) by a shuttle astronaut
(someone - boy, this lack of references sure doesn't substantiate
my story, does it?) that tried looking for the Great Wall once
he was in orbit. 

He claimed that he could only find it with great difficulty, and while
purposely looking for it through the shuttles telescopic cameras.
(The first thing he thought was the Great Wall turned out to
be a river....)

Thought I'd pass that along...


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