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Have you considered Nebhead Send a noteboard - 02/08/2014 08:00:44 PM

That the weight of the city and/or clock (depending on whether whatever jiggerypokery you've got going on affect it's weight on the ground as well as on itself) is likely to crush the earth around it into a huge depression? Could affect how far away it's visible.

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Would a thing 10 miles wide look bigger from 800 miles than a thing 2000 miles wide from 230,000? Joel - 02/08/2014 05:38:15 AM 890 Views
Re: Would a thing 10 miles wide look bigger from 800 miles than a thing 2000 miles ... Nate - 05/08/2014 05:14:08 AM 767 Views
What size is the planet itself ? AgentApple - 02/08/2014 11:21:40 AM 700 Views
Re: What size is the planet itself ? Nate - 05/08/2014 05:01:37 AM 907 Views
I come bearing gifts of knowledge Nebhead - 02/08/2014 07:54:07 PM 1139 Views
Have you considered Nebhead - 02/08/2014 08:00:44 PM 937 Views
Re: Have you considered Nate - 05/08/2014 05:06:25 AM 923 Views
Air quality would affect visibility anyway, and you have to calculate curvature of the Earth. Tom - 03/08/2014 03:18:42 AM 676 Views
Re: Air quality would affect visibility anyway, and you have to calculate curvature of the Earth. Nate - 05/08/2014 05:09:48 AM 992 Views
See, I think you are doing this the wrong way around... jh - 04/08/2014 09:43:05 PM 744 Views
That's exactly what worried me. Nate - 05/08/2014 05:11:51 AM 792 Views
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