Reports of Earth-orbiting astronauts glimpsing the Great Wall of China and many other artificial structures are wildly exaggerated, but humanity’s planetary influence isn’t entirely invisible from afar
  • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I’ve always thought this was a hilarious myth. “You can see the Great Wall from space because it’s really… long?”

    It’s desert-colored bricks going through a desert. Shorter, narrower, and less expansive than whole mountain ranges that still can’t be seen from space. But no, this ancient brickwork is easier to see than those. I heard it in history class.

    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Teeeeechnically possible since satellites can see it, you can see it on Google Earth if you zoom reeeeeeally far in. But yeah no, visible to the naked eye? Hell no