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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.