Like most vegetables, cucumbers are tender and tastiest when harvested young before their seeds are fully developed. Slicing cucumber varieties are generally ready for harvest when about six to eight inches long; pickling types at three to five inches.
Headlights on âupperâ or âhighâ beam let you see about 350-400 feet ahead. 400 feet is your approximately stopping distance when driving at 50-55 mph. That is about the length of a city block. In other words, high beams let you see twice as far as low beams.
I know we can see light years away when we look up. What I want to know is on a flat surface looking straight ahead (the surface remaining flat the entire distance) how far until the vanishing point or horizon. I know there is a mathematical formula for this, but can't find it.