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Say they photographed him just before sundown, when there's a long shadow. Knowing the exact position and time of the photograph (and therefore the angle of the
by a-priori 18y ago
Say they photographed him just before sundown, when there's a long shadow. Knowing the exact position and time of the photograph (and therefore the angle of the sun), you could probably get a pretty accurate measure of his height from the length of his shadow... even from a satellite photo.
- rincewind 18y agoonly if he stood on very even ground and even then it's difficult:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid