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
On 2025-01-20 00:53:53 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
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.
On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
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
On 2025-01-22 20:53:09 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
On 2025-01-22 20:53:09 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
On 1/23/2025 12:57 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
In article <vmsj0h$1g5h6$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2025-01-22 20:53:09 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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