I was just reading an article on the Great Wall of China and it contained the notorious “its so gigantic it can be seen from space” quote. Now this always, and I mean always baffles me as surely just about anything can be seen from Space.
Aside from the fact we have the satellites that have 100-Gigapixel Macro lenses attached to them I also doubt that anyone could see anything from space with their naked eye, apart from the odd Russia-sized country.
The Great Wall however, is not alone, one of the Millenium Dome’s selling points was that it could be seen from Space (who knows why), once again I incredibly doubt this “fact” without the use of a satellite.
Anyway back on to more important matters: Digital editing has commenced on the Chenai video, I hope to have a copy of this online by next week, I’ll add it to the new Media > Video section! I have also a re-edited part of my Recycling documentary if anyone remembers that? Well, that will be in that section too.
If you haven’t already noticed I re-coded the links part of the site, its much easiar to read now and its also easiar for me to update. The older version will stay online but I won’t be updating it.
I’m also considering moving photo galleries: from Coppermine to Flickr. How does that sound? My old gallery will stay online but it won’t be updated as often as Flickr (I don’t think), yet it will be reserved for more personal events rather than public ones which I have been using Flickr for.
Charlie,
Can Be Seen From Space.
Filed under: Musings, Site News, Space, University
