What man-made things on Earth are visible to someone on the moon

[Tiny]

The above question was asked on TV recently. And the answer was given as 'nothing'.

Of course there is one man made thing on the surface of the Earth easily visible from the moon. Light pollution on the night side.

[Tim]

I know its invisible, but the hole in the Ozone layer would be large enough to see. If you could see it.

[timetraveller]

Ive heard that question asked before on a quiz show and the answer that was offered then as being correct was Staten island new york its the largest landfill site on the planet wouldn't it be ironic if it were true the only human endeavour visible from space a rubbish dump mind you perhaps they could fill it with all that astro junk whizzing endlessly around our little blue marble

regards Pete

[Sam]

Given how far away the moon is you'd be hard pressed to see much with the naked eye (even if the spacesuit bubble glass was pristine clean).

Sam

[Anubis]

According to Stephen Fry on QI, nothing man made is visible from the moon. "Even the continents themselves are quite hard to make out"

[Tiny]

But that was an old programme made before Pluto was a Plutoid, which was a bit hazy with a couple of other astro points at the expense of getting laughs and moving the programme along. (It was a 2003 one - almost last century!)l