http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm
Claim: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.
Status: False.
Origins: The claim that China's Great Wall is the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye is one of our more tenaciously incorrect "facts," a bit of erroneous speculation which was spawned decades before we had the means to demonstrate it true, and which continues to have currency despite having long since been proved false. Some less specific versions of the Great Wall claim maintain it is the only man-made object that can be seen from "space," but although the term "space" is rather non-specific, it is not difficult to show the Great Wall claim to be false for any reasonable definition of the term...
Claim: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the moon.
Status: False.
Origins: The claim that China's Great Wall is the only man-made object that can be seen from the moon with the naked eye is one of our more tenaciously incorrect "facts," a bit of erroneous speculation which was spawned decades before we had the means to demonstrate it true, and which continues to have currency despite having long since been proved false. Some less specific versions of the Great Wall claim maintain it is the only man-made object that can be seen from "space," but although the term "space" is rather non-specific, it is not difficult to show the Great Wall claim to be false for any reasonable definition of the term...
If you think that was bad, try this one:
Problem: "Mongols" did not exist until the time Chingghis/Genghis Khan. And umm.. he said that sections of the wall were rebuilt in the Ming, but they were somehow "joined" 2000 years before that? LMAO
somehow i doubt these people are really journalists who really care. they look like a WWN tabloid.
Yeah. I agree.
BTW, check out the article on a frustrated golfer who cut down a couple of trees to make the golf course easier. I found it hilarious.
Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
"Looks like it still works"
-coworker
I laughed my ass off when he said that
nik
bump
Koing
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Ditto.
They don't have the guts to do it and I sure as hell don't want to die like that guy did in such an attempt!
I was wondering WTF wasn't he wearing a full motorbike helmet? Like the ones an F1 driver uses or something of THAT high quality. He was wearing a dam bicycle helmet! CRAZY or was he that sure of getting over and LANDING it? What a nutter!
guyver01
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- Sep 25, 2000
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that's just sad. sadder than the fact that ever since i gave up irc because i spent too much time at my computer i started to spend that time here in OT.
Lithium381
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- May 12, 2001
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poor guy........cool attempt at something cool.....poor guy........sorta dumb though....would have been sweet if he made it
btw this is the original post not a rep0st........
btw this is the original post not a rep0st........
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