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Originally Posted by glatt
Wondering about visual acuity.
I just saw 4-6 skydivers over Arlington. More than one had an American flag hanging from them, like soldiers parachuting into an NFL game.
I looked at Google Earth when I got home, to see where in the hell they might be able to have landed, and drew a line from my observation spot by my house into the direction where I saw them. The only safe landing spot along that path was the Iwo Jima memorial, which is 3.19 miles away. I clearly saw the dark specks of a human being under the canopy of each parachute.
So the question is, can you see a person 3 miles away? Don't tell me about a candle at 1.5 miles, that's totally different.
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2.44 miles away. They didn't land at Iwo Jima, but at the army base next to it.
https://twitter.com/ArmyFifeandDrum/...778304/photo/2