Re: Where can you see the back of your head?

<threevok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:23755-44FE5768-25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The serious answer from Astronomy magazine is: Venus. If you can get
there and somehow avoid being crushed to death by the atmospheric
pressure, and if you can also survive heat slightly greater than the
daytime surface of Mercury, then you can see the back of your head.

I think the atmosphere on Venus is thick and murky enough that you couldn't see very far at all; certainly not all the way around the circumference of Venus.

- Oliver

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