I’m a bit slow in picking up on this one. I always thought it was a little strange when I heard people claim you could see the Great Wall from space–it being just a wall.
Duh.
It wasn’t until now that I read that your can’t see it from space. Anyway, the Chinese Ministry of Education has ordered the myth be removed from that country’s textbooks. So I’m now on par with the Chinese school kiddies.
Onward and upward.
UPDATE: The controversy continues.
Via Tennessee Ruck, this story quotes American astronaut Gene Cernan: “At Earth orbit of 160km to 320km high, the Great Wall of China is indeed visible to the naked eye.”
Maybe I need to go up there to settle this one once and for all.