{"id":3297,"date":"2018-04-25T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2018-04-25T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:46:37","slug":"a-few-selected-horizon-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3297","title":{"rendered":"a few selected horizon points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on some <em>slightly<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringbell.co.uk\/info\/hdist.htm\">simplified math<\/a>, here are approximate distances to an uninterrupted horizon from various viewing heights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6 feet &#8211; slightly-above-average human eye level: 3 miles<\/li>\n<li>20 feet &#8211; top of the roof of a typical one-story house: 5.5 miles<\/li>\n<li>50 feet &#8211; short hill \/ top of a tree or boom truck: 8.7 miles<\/li>\n<li>100 feet &#8211; ~10th story window : 12.3 miles<\/li>\n<li>250 feet &#8211; ~20th floor of an office building: 19.4 miles<\/li>\n<li>350 feet &#8211; top of the Cliffs of Dover: 22.9 miles<\/li>\n<li>1050 feet &#8211; {{Empire State Building}} observation deck: 39.7 miles<\/li>\n<li>1800 feet &#8211; observatory of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burj_Khalifa\">Burj Khalifa<\/a> : 52 miles<\/li>\n<li>14,115 feet &#8211; top of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pikes_Peak\">Pike&#8217;s Peak<\/a>: 145.6 miles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on some slightly simplified math, here are approximate distances to an uninterrupted horizon from various viewing heights: 6 feet &#8211; slightly-above-average human eye level: 3 miles 20 feet &#8211; top of the roof of a typical one-story house: 5.5 miles 50 feet &#8211; short hill \/ top of a tree or boom truck: 8.7 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=3297\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a few selected horizon points<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[384,580,670],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-horizon","tag-points","tag-selected"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}