I know, I know, but only cause I know.
Actually talking distances, I have been playing a lot of Star Wars Galaxies lately, and I have found that judging distances in an "alien" enviroment there can be really hard. Like on Tatooine riding over the desert, the mountains look really close because there is nothing to give you an actual scale of the height and a ridge is blocking the distance between you and the mountain. I know this is just a game, but I have experienced the same in real life, seeing things that seem just a km away, but are really closer to 10 km distance, or in one case about 200km away (this one is a mountain that under the right conditions looks like it is virtually at the end of the main street in our neighbouriong township, but is really in the middle of the North Island.)
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