(urth) Wall of Nessus

[brunians at brunians.org]

We did fifty mile marches all the time in the Army.

60 would be pushing it. It wouldn't be a leisurely walk.

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> On 6/14/2010 8:35 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>> Someone recently mentioned this quote by Severian:
>>
>> "No. I've spent my life so near the middle of the city that the Wall was
>> no more than a dark line on the northern horizon when we looked from the
>> glass-roofed room at the top of our tower. I am astounded, I admit."
>> SHADOW XXXV
>>
>> What would the radius of the city need to be for a wall of that height
>> to disappear beyond the horizon at ground level?
>
> There's a distance-to-horizon calculator here:
>
> 	http://boatsafe.com/tools/horizon.htm
>
> a 1-mile Wall would be visible for 97.8 statute miles.  Perhaps league
> has an ambiguous meaning similar to chiliad; if young Severian had been
> up late the night before units class, perhaps he misheard a league as
> three furlongs instead of three miles?  A Wall 3/8 mile tall would be
> visible for 59.9 statute miles...still too long to walk in a day.
>
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