Friday, March 12, 2004
The Great Wall Myth
Sometime in the dim and distant past, Atanu had reminded me that the story about the Great Wall of China being the only man made object visible from space was nothing but urban legend. Turns out it was not urban legend, but Maoist legend, as China finally admitted that the Great Wall could not be seen from space. Apparently, the recent space mission had a downside since taikonaut Yang Liwei testified that he could not see the Wall from space. The text books are now in the process of being rewritten.
