so if you can see stars so good with telescopes

kevinh

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why not put the telemescope at the bottem of the hill and look at the top of the hill. you might see two girls going at it eh?
 
not true. The curvature of the earth wouldnt allow it. If you look at stretches of clear, flat land(Say a runway) after only a few hundred miles on a clear day you will see the runway starts to curve down and disappear. Now over 3,000 miles, no way, it would be under you so to speak and you could not see the end of it.


edit: Because i know people wont believe me



double edit: I just realized i guess it there was a mountain thousands of miles in the air you would be able to see but thats a little redicalus
 

greenieball

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well hypothetically speaking you can do whatever the fuck you want, so what's the point of this thread? The answer is NO, because you wouldn't be able to look down on anything without shit getting in the way, including the curvature of the earth.
 

who1s269

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This sounds like a trig-based physics problem. Figure curvature of earth, distance from New York to said mountain, field of vision from viewpoint, needed height of the mountain.

Or something.
 

jobew

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no wouldnt work. telescopes magnify what we can already see. theyre not a zoom lens, it is just some crazy magnification. if you could see new york from california it would work.
 
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