----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:54 PM Subject: Towers of Light
> Just saw the Towers of Light come on-line. > > Some questions: > > 1) Are they visible from space? It certainly didn't look like it from > the footage I saw (as opposed to the artists rendetions released beforehand > which looked like they would be visible from Alpha Centauri. ;-) > The press release said it was 88 searchlights. It doesn't seem to be that much. > 3) *IF* they towers of light were visible from space, would they count as > the second man-made object visible from space? (I've heard, which come to > think of it may just be an urban legend, that the Great Wall of China is > the only man-made object visible from space.) > It depends on what one calls an object. Clearly city lights are visable from space. If it has to be one thing, an H-bomb is certainly visable from space. Dan M.
