http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Religion/(thats the site where i got the fact)

John Bunyan, who was a popular writer from the 1700's, was put in prison for twelve years for preaching. (there's the fact)

I can see where the mistakes might be made wikipedia is saying he died in the late 1600s and this site says he was imprisoned in the 1700s....


Edit:Going by the imformation i was using its only fair that rogan takes a go..

Sorry ratty

Totally understandable keoghz

Giz a sec

8ball final

After all this you want to play pool haha

Well I won so does that excuse me?

Right, back to business.

You won't find the answer to this on the internet, but you can find how to work it out. (well you probably can, but it's easier to work it out I reckon)


If a man, 5 foot, 3 inches tall was standing at sea level and looking out to sea, approximately how far away would the horizon appear to be?

Answer in imperial units please


EDIT: Too easy so the height of the man was changed.

Edited at 22:30 Thu 26/02/09 (GMT)

Trick question?

Edit:Congrats on the final

Not at all, how do you figure?

the horizon is like the end of a rainbow, its impossible to calculate the horizen

I beg to differ

The horizon is where the sky meets the sea, if you keep going out to sea the horizon is going to be the same distance away, the answer is...as far as you can throw a wet stick?


Edit: my horrendous spelling mistakes and grammar

Aslong as you stay at the same level above sea it will always be the same distance away (given there is nothing in the way) but what would that distance be for a man of 5 foot 3 inches?

So... in theory, one can see the sea over an infinite distance, keoghz?

theoretically speaking yes, without land or a lighthouse in the way

So when the sun sets on the ocean, how come it doesn't get wet? Or boil the ocean?

Update: When I say 5ft 3 - you can take that measurement to be the height of his eyeline.

Just to stop confusion at a later stage.

Keoghz?

Because the sun is thousands of miles away from the earth,it takes 13 minutes for the light form the sun to reach you...

Clooneman?

But if the ocean extends forever into the distance, then doesn't the sun plunge into it when it sets?

2.83 miles or so?

I get 2.81 miles



http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/qsystems/people/sque/physics/horizon/?h=5.3&r=6378.14&d_s=8.22243&d_c=8.22242