Longest Lines of Sight on Earth
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Longest Lines of Sight on Earth
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Re: Longest Lines of Sight on Earth
#2very cool - I'd never even given this concept a second thought. I'd like to graph these and see how they overlap - would be cool to implement networks via something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolite
I'd also be curious to see how this would look if you could include manmade structures like towers or skyscrapers
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#3I wonder if this is computable from a contour map of the earth, assuming optimal atmospheric conditions.
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#4Interesting, I'm not sure how the list was created, it seems to be missing entries such as the one mentioned in that March 2015 comment at the end of the post.
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#5very cool - I'd never even given this concept a second thought. I'd like to graph these and see how they overlap - would be cool to implement networks via something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolite I'd also be curious to see how this would look if you could include manmade structures like towers or skyscrapers
If you included skyscrapers I bet you'd have the same list no changes. Most of these mountains are > 2km tall.
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#6I can't resist... Reminds me of the Beacons of Minas Tirith from Return of the King, probably my favorite sequence in the entire trilogy:
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#7So are there pictures of what a distant mountain actually looks like over 500km across the Earth; that is the point after all?
Or is there already a YouTube video of this?
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#8very cool - I'd never even given this concept a second thought. I'd like to graph these and see how they overlap - would be cool to implement networks via something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolite I'd also be curious to see how this would look if you could include manmade structures like towers or skyscrapers
If you included skyscrapers I bet you'd have the same list no changes. Most of these mountains are > 2km tall.
you'd still probably have one of those coordinates (of the tall mountain) remain the same, then find a tower that goes even further than the second point - although I never assume my logic is correct in geodesy/astronomy, especially when I'm tired
edit* - in practice you're probably right
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#9I'll make a tableau public viz with these when I get home
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#10Does this mean that there is no known place (point) on Earth from which you can see some other point that is more than 538km away?