beardy wrote:and that is why drop is the wrong measure of whether something will be tall enough to be visible or not.
That has no bearing on the light needing to bend upwards by 2,200 feet from point to point.
This guy is pretty entertaining lol...
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0JZz2HNRwdS
He is the guy with the nano laser (1000MW/532nm, class 4 device) that reaches 50 miles and he is doing a few tests so we should find out soon enough assuming he can carry out the test without anything stopping him and I ain't talking about the weather.