[HN Gopher] Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England? - ...
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| (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.
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