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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: xkcd: Human Altitude
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:57:54 -0800
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In article <vmsj0h$1g5h6$1@dont-email.me>,
 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> On 2025-01-22 20:53:09 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:
> > On 1/21/2025 8:40 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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.

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
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