Art Verbotten
Group: citizens
(850 posts total)
(last post: March 14, 2008 - 13:16)
Citizen #19:
Art Verbotten | No. You cannot see the other side.
There is a reason they call these The Great Lakes!!
Lake Michigan is around 65 miles across where we are.
The normal horizon is about 30-40 miles which increases with height.
I've never been on the top floors of our skyscrapers to check, but I'm guessing on a clear day you should be able to see the Michigan shoreline from the upper floors.
As an oddity, from time to time you'll get air conditions over the lake that cause the sunlight to bend so you can see the opposite shore, but these are unusual. I've only seen this a few times in my life. Most people mistake this phenomenon as clouds on the horizon.
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