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xkcd #3039: Human Altitude (xkcd.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Iron_Lynx to c/xkcd
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I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

very approximate

But what are the constant dips between years?

[–] jungle 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Must be years without launches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So in 1882 nobody went above 1.5 meters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Something weird must've been going on for sure. Two years later Flatland was published.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lol, immediately as the 2D book is published, boom, 3km in 3rdD!

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