[HN Gopher] Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? - ... ___________________________________________________________________ Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? - Menu Author : qwertyuiop_ Score : 60 points Date : 2021-09-18 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.anglezarke.net) (TXT) w3m dump (www.anglezarke.net) | frabbit wrote: | There reverse is certainly claimed in Ireland, e.g. | https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/i-was-sur... | ojbyrne wrote: | The end of the original article mentions that he is talking | about England as opposed to Wales. Your article only mentions | Wales. | frabbit wrote: | Good point. | secondcoming wrote: | Snowdonia is in Wales, not England. | frabbit wrote: | And should really be called Eryri. But, point accepted. | dr_dshiv wrote: | Wow, that's mind-blowing. It does seem so romantic, to consider | how people might have imagined a far away land. | BrianHenryIE wrote: | Wow, that's a great photo. | | I grew up in Wicklow town and we could see Wales occasionally. | If my dad said "you can see Wales today" what he was really | saying was "the weather's great today". | azalemeth wrote: | I'm not so sure about that. I haven't checked the distances, but | the claim is that the author has seen a 610m peak from a 150m | observation tower, and that it is 150 mi away. | | The line of sight radio/radar horizon across the surface of the | earth is well known and easy to calculate (1) and for two sources | at different heights you can just add them. I get this as being | about 94 mi, less than the stated distance. | | (1): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_horizon | redis_mlc wrote: | HN, stay pedantic. | jameshart wrote: | No, his claim is he can see it from Anglezark, and he gives the | viewpoint altitude there as 298m. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-18 23:00 UTC)