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▲ LoganDark 5 hours ago

Yeah, but I can't even really get to the intellectual conclusion from the photos, is the thing. Like, I want to at least see a sign of it that doesn't look like just a small cave. It's very difficult to see the scale of rocky landscapes from a photo, I guess maybe a person for scale wouldn't hurt. I don't need to see the full entire depth, but I just see so little in general. Maybe there's more in the photo, but I'm not interpreting the rough rock faces well enough. Can't really get any information from the shadows either.

▲detourdog 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m curious if the size of 8 miles is related to the curvature of the earth. That’s about the distance that big things disappear over the horizon

▲dghlsakjg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

From a 6 foot above ground level of eye, an object only needs to be 17 ft tall to disappear below the horizon at 8 miles.

Amazing the math you remember from a celestial nav course more than a decade ago.