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tdeck on Sept 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can You See the Republic of Ireland from England?

Oddly this calculator gives a different result of 172km for those heights, I assume from a different value of R: https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/el-GR/calcula...

agf on Sept 19, 2021 [–]

Same result, just true "line of sight" vs. including light bending. The calculator I used gives both values.

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