Wall of Nessus

Mr Thalassocrat · 15 Jun 2010, 03:47 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat08 at gmail.com (Mr Thalassocrat)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:17:50 +0930
Subject: (urth) Wall of Nessus
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

>
>
> At 25,000ft the Wall peeps over the horizon at a distance of about 200
>> miles, for somebody at sea level. For somebody at the top of a (say)
>> 300ft torturers' tower, it's around 175 miles.
>>
>
>  If the Wall is "only" a mile high, then it's maybe 75 miles or so from
>> the Citadel, and ~20 miles per day seems kind of reasonable.
>>
>
> The increased vantage height of the towers should let the Wall be visible
> from *farther* away, rather than constraining the distance closer.
>
Argh! I'd worry about early senility if I couldn't remember making stupid
mistakes like that even when I was young.

So figure around 125 miles away, for a mile high Wall just visible from a
300 ft torturers' tower. I guess that's probably too far, so you'd probably
have to cut the down the Wall height even further.
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