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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 04:41:56 -0700
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: site design
Message-ID:  <19980822044156.H924@notabene.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <35DE642A.EF88A3CD@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 12:24:42AM -0600
References:  <199808211750.RAA11180@dingo.cdrom.com> <35DE642A.EF88A3CD@softweyr.com>

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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 12:24:42AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> Wes Peters recently blathered:
> 
> % This was an open invitation for someone to slam me back, as I live
> % 5 miles from the only man-made feature on the surface of the planet
> % visible to the unaided human eye from orbit.  Any takers yet?
> %
> % No, it's *not* the Great Wall of China.
>  
> Mike Smith cleverly replied:
> > But it is visible to the human eye from orbit.

Which is true.  So yours will have to be one of the very few man-made
features visible from orbit.

> No, to be seen from orbit, this has to be a pretty big structure.
> IIRC, it's nearly 5 miles across, and colored such that it stands
> out quite nicely from the background, which is mostly wheat fields
> and sage brush.

That's one hell of a crop circle!

Or one nice particle accelerator.

Greg
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