Great wall really can't be seen from space
 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html

Thoes tricksters...

so

Somebody named wang lied about the size of something :Graucho

least the lying bastards can cook. one ooduh shrim fri ri! :1orglaugh

I grew up believing that crap.
Good thing kids today won't.

You might not be able to see the great wall but I bet if you shined all the bootleg DVD's and software they knock off every year it would be a beautiful thing to see from the shuttle.

I don't care if it can be seen or not,
I just wanna be up in space...

Here's another common myth that is taught in schools:

At no time did people think the earth was flat. There are round globes dating back thousands of years. That middle ages flat-earth-fall-of-the-edge stuff is bullshit.

Nelson: Naaa Haaa!

Washington Irving (1783-1859), who loved to write historical fiction under the guise of history. His misrepresentations of the history of early New York City and of the life of Washington were topped by his history of Christopher Columbus (1828). It was he who invented the indelible picture of the young Columbus, a "simple mariner," appearing before a dark crowd of benighted inquisitors and hooded theologians at a council of Salamanca, all of whom believed, according to Irving, that the earth was flat like a plate. Well, yes, there was a meeting at Salamanca in 1491, but Irving's version of it, to quote a distinguished modern historian of Columbus, was "pure moonshine. Washington Irving, scenting his opportunity for a picturesque and moving scene," created a fictitious account of this "nonexistent university council" and "let his imagination go completely...the whole story is misleading and mischievous nonsense."

http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~rgrosser/wi.jpg

Okay,

So if this is the case why did it take the chinese to disprove it?

Wouldn't the russians or the usa or anyone the fuck else have said it before?

If so WTF???


:helpme

The answer is either:

A) it is a case of the Chinese only wanting to believe one of their own kind,

or

B) US astronauts simply didn't give a shit about looking for some view of some wall.








There was an old 50's sci-fi movie where one of the actors peered out the window of a space craft and said something about seeing the great wall. Can't remember the name of that movie but things like that likely fueled on the myth.

I can remember seeing a movie that had that in it but cant remember what it was

So?I really wonder who give the fuck for that...:2 cents:

It must have been known for a long time what with the size of this myth and the number of people that have been in space by now. But we have something called political correctness that hinders people from telling the truth in fear of being labelled "hateful" and whatnot.