#1 Firearm Zealot
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how far can you see?
how far can each of you see with the unaided eye?
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#2 Firearm Zealot
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be aware that this is kind of a trick question.
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#3 Firearm Zealot
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Location: Buffalo, Wyo
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Far enough on a clear day to see whats comin. Detail? Depends, if I need to pick something out probably about 400 yards giver or take a little.
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#4 Firearm Zealot
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I use to make my own offramps on the Interstate. Had Lasik surgery and can see pretty good now.
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#5 Firearm Zealot
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Quote:
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srt 10 jimbo
I use to make my own offramps on the Interstate. Had Lasik surgery and can see pretty good now.
YIKES!
sounds like that lasik was a good idea!
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#6 Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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well that depends on many variables. If a person was 6' tall with good vision and standing on the beach where the water meets the sand and was looking straight out then you would be able to see 7 miles. on land you can see further. Why? anyone?
#7 Freedom Zealot
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I can see Russia from my house !!
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#8 Ret First Sergeant
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I can see the front sight on my longest gun.
#9 Firearm Aficionado
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Location: Central NJ
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As far as the eye can see.
#10 Firearm Enthusiast
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Posts: 44
I can see stars, how far away are they?
#11 Firearm Aficionado
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Location: SF Bay area, California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Palladin8
well that depends on many variables. If a person was 6' tall with good vision and standing on the beach where the water meets the sand and was looking straight out then you would be able to see 7 miles. on land you can see further. Why? anyone?
Well, at sea level your horizon is 7 miles away. If there is nothing on the horizon, that's all you can see.
On land you can see the top of a tall mountain much, much farther away. I remember some days in New Mexico where I could see mountains that were 70 or more miles away.
#12 Firearm Zealot
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Location: abilene,tx
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All the way...
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#13 Firearm Zealot
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Quote:
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billy
YIKES!
I considered that at one time but when I went in their shop they were all wearing glasses & trying to sell the benefits of Laser surgery to me???
WTF...........if it's not good enough for them, it wasn't good enough for me! I'll stick with my glasses.
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#14 Firearm Aficionado
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Location: Central, OH
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Right now I can the wall which is about 9 feet away. When I'm in an airplane I can see pretty far.
#15 Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Walterboro, SC
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Well, I can see stars that're many billions of light years away, so rounding it off at 10 billion light years I'd say about....58,745,899,242,040,000,000,000 miles. And yes, I actually spent the time to figure that out....
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#16 Firearm Zealot
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^Hey! That's more miles than the number of dollars our government is in debt!
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#17 Firearm Zealot
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my own two feet
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#18 Firearm Zealot
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on a clear night we can see 2.5 million light years
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#19 Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Iowa
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Quote:
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billy
on a clear night we can see 2.5 million light years
Only 2.3 for me. I don't see as good as I used to.
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#20 (Tom)
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Unless my calculations are flawed, I can see 2.972541717939 million light years on a clear day with no moonlight and the temperature at 0 F. Give or take a few hundred feet.
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