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From: SJROSS1R@aol.com [mailto:SJROSS1R@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:49 AM To: john@pretto.com Subject: Hello John How are you sir? My name is Stephen Pretto...
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Email from Stephen Pretto Rossillo
From: SJROSS1R@aol.com [mailto:SJROSS1R@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:49 AM
To: john@pretto.com
Subject: Hello John
How are you sir? My name is Stephen Pretto Rossillo.
My mother was Vitalina Pretto, daughter of Giovanni Pretto and Cecilia Povolo Pretto, who came from the village of Muschi, in the town of Recoaro Terme, Vicenza.
I have many cousins over there that I see every couple of years or so. Some of their names are:
- Roberto Pretto
- Luca Pretto
- Massimo Pretto
- Stefano Pretto
- Antonio Pretto
- Bruno Pretto
- Eugenio Pretto
…and of course many more.
~
I am from the NYC tri-state area — Ridgefield, Bergen county, NJ.
Talk to you soon.
-Steve
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How far is the Horizon??
Jan 17, 2009
Horizon Geometry
“The square root of your height (or elevation) in feet times 1.2 equals the distance to your horizon in miles.
So, how high would Sarah Palin’s house have to be inorder to see Russia?:
Wasilla, Alaska, is 1130 km from Russia.
How high above the Earth’s surface do you have to be to see a point 1130 km away along the Earth’s surface? If we start plugging numbers into myDistance To Horizon Calculator, we see that the answer is 101425.88 meters. You have to go 101 km (63 miles!) above Wasilla before you can see Russia. You can knock 104 meters off of that if you like to account for Wasilla’s elevation above sea level.
| Height (meters) | Distance (km) | Height(feet) | Distance (miles) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 5.1 | 6.6 | 3.0 |
| 3 | 6.2 | 9.8 | 3.7 |
| 4 | 7.1 | 13.1 | 4.3 |
| 5 | 8.0 | 16.4 | 4.8 |
| 6 | 8.7 | 19.7 | 5.2 |
| 7 | 9.4 | 23.0 | 5.7 |
| 8 | 10.1 | 26.2 | 6.1 |
| 9 | 10.7 | 29.5 | 6.4 |
| 10 | 11.3 | 32.8 | 6.8 |
| 20 | 16.0 | 65.6 | 9.6 |
| 30 | 19.5 | 98.4 | 11.7 |
| 40 | 22.6 | 131.2 | 13.5 |
| 50 | 25.2 | 164.0 | 15.1 |
| 60 | 27.6 | 196.8 | 16.6 |
| 70 | 29.9 | 229.6 | 17.9 |
| 80 | 31.9 | 262.4 | 19.2 |
| 90 | 33.9 | 295.2 | 20.3 |
| 100 | 35.7 | 328.0 | 21.4 |
| 1000 | 112.8 | 3280.0 | 67.7 |
| 2000 | 159.6 | 6560.0 | 95.7 |
| 5000 | 252.3 | 16,400.0 | 151.4 |
| 10,000 | 356.9 | 32,800.0 | 214.2 |
| 12,000 | 391.0 | 39,360.0 | 234.6 |
| 100,000 | 1,132.7 | 328,000.0 | 679.6 |
| 500,000 | 2,572.0 | 1,640,000.0 | 1543.2 |
| 1,000,000,000 | 1,006,344.9 | 3,280,000,000.0 | 603,806.9 |