China Beijing Great Wall of China

What’s so great about the great wall of China? You can see it from the moon! But Wiki says otherwise.

“Popular beliefs ranging from Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’s cartoons from 1930s, which claimed that the Great Wall is “the mightiest work of man, the only one that would be visible to the human eye from the moon,” to Richard Halliburton’s 1938 book Second Book of Marvels which makes a similar claim, have persisted, assuming urban legend status, and sometimes even appearing in school textbooks. Arthur Waldron, author of The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, has speculated that the belief might go back to the fascination with the “canals”  once believed to exist on Mars.

The Great Wall is a maximum 9.1 m (30 ft) wide and is about the same color as the soil surrounding it. Based on the optics of resolving power (distance versus the width of the iris: a few millimetres for the human eye, metres for large telescopes) only an object of reasonable contrast to its surroundings 70 miles or more in diameter (1 arc-minute) would be visible to the unaided eye from the moon, whose average distance from Earth is 384,393 km (238,857 miles). The apparent width of the Great Wall from the moon is the same as that of a human hair viewed from 2 miles away. To see the wall from the moon would require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal (20/20) vision.[11] Unsurprisingly, no lunar astronaut has ever claimed seeing the Great Wall from the moon.”

I look like a…. man with a gun. hehehe

Such enticement of “be a true man” might appeal to the egoist.

The “true man” medal

The real, original (refurbished) walls.

For the dainty, panting, insurance-covered individual…. railings!

The wall has been succumbed to much abuse. Mr. Love was here?

Bring you wife, buy a lock, write your names, lock the lock, throw the key into the snow. More money to spend? Buy the Solex lock!

Have your name written in stone. The biggest stone you can spot among this pile costs a whopping RM200-RM300! And the red ink… RM25! We can get it from the RM2 dollar shop in Malaysia.

The skill is in how they can squeeze 7 characters m-a-e-l-o-d-e-e into half a square!

I love this picture of a bull being strong. That being said, it was the idol that costs the Israelites to fall. Moreover an ox is really a castrated bull. If you castrate a male, they don’t have the totesterone anymore and they would be as tame as a sheep! So this issue of calling the Year of the Ox as a year to “charge forward” is misleading. It should be a year of “working harder under slavery” ~_~