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xkcd: Human Altitude
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Lynn McGuire
2025-01-20 00:53:53 UTC
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xkcd: Human Altitude
https://xkcd.com/3039/

This human altitude height chart will be expanded greatly in the next
decade or two.

Explained at
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude

Lynn
Your Name
2025-01-20 01:20:19 UTC
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xkcd: Human Altitude
https://xkcd.com/3039/
This human altitude height chart will be expanded greatly in the next
decade or two.
Explained at
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
Lynn
The chart will only be expanded because the Moon has moved slightly
further aawy than in the Apollo days ... assuming people actually go
back to the Moon any time soon. :-)

The idiocy of people going to Mars is unlikely to happen in the "next
decade or two". (The moron Muskrat has even had his rockets currently
grounded because, unsurprisingly, they're failing and causing choas,
just like his idiotic Tesla cars.)
Paul S Person
2025-01-20 16:19:22 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
xkcd: Human Altitude
https://xkcd.com/3039/
This human altitude height chart will be expanded greatly in the next
decade or two.
Explained at
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
Lynn
The chart will only be expanded because the Moon has moved slightly
further aawy than in the Apollo days ... assuming people actually go
back to the Moon any time soon. :-)
The idiocy of people going to Mars is unlikely to happen in the "next
decade or two". (The moron Muskrat has even had his rockets currently
grounded because, unsurprisingly, they're failing and causing choas,
just like his idiotic Tesla cars.)
And, anyway, running Trump is a /lot/ more fun.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
Lynn McGuire
2025-01-21 04:50:18 UTC
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xkcd: Human Altitude
    https://xkcd.com/3039/
This human altitude height chart will be expanded greatly in the next
decade or two.
Explained at
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
Lynn
The chart will only be expanded because the Moon has moved slightly
further aawy than in the Apollo days ... assuming people actually go
back to the Moon any time soon.  :-)
The idiocy of people going to Mars is unlikely to happen in the "next
decade or two". (The moron Muskrat has even had his rockets currently
grounded because, unsurprisingly, they're failing and causing choas,
just like his idiotic Tesla cars.)
Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.

Lynn
Scott Dorsey
2025-01-21 14:40:23 UTC
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Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
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Dimensional Traveler
2025-01-23 01:58:19 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Who's writing the plot?
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Your Name
2025-01-23 05:10:41 UTC
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Post by Lynn McGuire
Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Lynn
It would also only work if the basketball played stood on the far side
of the Moon, which nobody has done yet.
Robert Woodward
2025-01-23 05:57:54 UTC
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Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Lynn
It would also only work if the basketball played stood on the far side
of the Moon, which nobody has done yet.
It would have to be at the Moon's apogee, because the eccentricity of
the Moon's orbit far surpasses its diameter.
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Cryptoengineer
2025-01-23 14:58:20 UTC
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Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Lynn
It would also only work if the basketball played stood on the far side
of the Moon, which nobody has done yet.
It would have to be at the Moon's apogee, because the eccentricity of
the Moon's orbit far surpasses its diameter.
That's an interesting point.

The 'highest' altitude wouldn't be someone standing on the Moon's far
side.

It would be one the Apollo capsule commanders, who remained in the
ship while the other two landed.

Which was the furthest from Earth would require checking the orbital
distance on the dates they were in orbit.

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Your Name
2025-01-24 02:50:15 UTC
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Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Lynn
It would also only work if the basketball played stood on the far side
of the Moon, which nobody has done yet.
It would have to be at the Moon's apogee, because the eccentricity of
the Moon's orbit far surpasses its diameter.
That's an interesting point.
The 'highest' altitude wouldn't be someone standing on the Moon's far
side.
It would be one the Apollo capsule commanders, who remained in the
ship while the other two landed.
Which was the furthest from Earth would require checking the orbital
distance on the dates they were in orbit.
pt
Yep. Even better if someone does a long-tether spacewalk away from
Earth in orbit on the far side of the Moon. :-)

Scott Dorsey
2025-01-24 00:55:33 UTC
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Note that the chart does not require reaching Mars, just reaching new
altitudes.
Yes: you could send a basketball player to the moon for instance.
--scott
That height difference would be lost in the plot.
Lynn
It would also only work if the basketball played stood on the far side
of the Moon, which nobody has done yet.
No problem. You send a Russian basketball player.
--scott
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