xkcd: Human Altitude

[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

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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.)

[Paul S Person]

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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.

[Lynn McGuire]

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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]

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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

[Dimensional Traveler]

Post by Scott Dorsey

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?

[Your Name]

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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]

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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.

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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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.

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]

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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.

No problem. You send a Russian basketball player.
--scott

[The Horny Goat]

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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.

Where are the Chinese on their moon base project (which is said to be
planned for the lunar far side)?