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 ''I know that I must do what’s right'' <br>
-''As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti''<ref>{{tag|Toto}}, ''{{tag|Africa}}'', allegedly by David Paich (well: no one ''else'' in {{tag|Toto}} seems prepared to claim responsibility for it).</ref> <br>
+''As sure as [[Kilimanjaro]] rises like [[Olympus]] above the [[Serengeti]]''<ref>Written, allegedly by [[David Paich]] (well: no one ''else'' in {{tag|Toto}} seems prepared to claim responsibility for it).</ref>}}
-[[File:Kilimanjaro.jpg|thumb|Kilimanjaro rising like ''itself'' above the ''Tsavo''.]]
+Where to start?
-[[File:Olympus.jpg|thumb|Olympus, rising like Olympus, above - I don't know - Thessaloniki or something.]]
-Where to start?
+For one thing, [[Kilimanjaro]] ''doesn’t'' rise above the [[Serengeti]]. (It rises above the [[Tsavo]] National Park. Why, you might wonder, ''didn’t'' he put “Tsavo”? It would have scanned better.) You can’t even ''see'' it from the [[Serengeti]], unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope: they’re about 250 kilometres from each other. A correspondent writes with photographic evidence, in the panel: you can barely see Kilimanjaro from Mount Meru, 70 km away in the Arusha National Park, let alone from Serengeti, three times further away.
-#Kilimanjaro ''doesn’t'' rise above the Serengeti. You can’t even ''see'' it from the [[Serengeti]], unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope: they're about 300 kilometres from each other.
-#Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn't rise above the [[Serengeti]]. It’s in Greece.
+And not just because it is a long way away. It is ''literally'' over the horizon. Let’s be fully scientific about this. From the ground, all but the top 900 metres of a 6,000 metre mountain would be over the horizon.<ref>Check it out for yourself at [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature this earth curvature calculator].</ref> 900 metres at 250km would appear about 4mm high, if you could even see it through nearby trees (with or without napping [[leopress]]es), haze, atmospheric perspective etc. This is not really rising at ''all'', let alone majestically, like Olympus might (if it weren’t already rising above a national park in Greece, of course).
-#To the extent you could say that something that has just sat there for millions of years does anything as energetic as "rising", then [[Kilimanjaro]] doesn’t rise ''like'' [[Olympus]] either.  They ''don’t'' look anything like each other. I mean, ''look''.
+And Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn’t rise above the [[Serengeti]]. It’s in Greece.
+To the extent you could say that something that has just sat there for millions of years does anything as energetic as “rising”, then [[Kilimanjaro]] doesn’t rise ''like'' [[Olympus]], either. It rises like [[Kilimanjaro]]. They ''don’t'' look anything like each other. I mean, ''look''.
-And we haven't even got onto the fact that the line doesn’t scan.
+And we haven’t even got onto the fact that THE LINE DOESN’T SCAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
-{{ref}}