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xkcd #3039: Human Altitude (xkcd.com)
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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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[โ€“] Tilgare@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to see how this looks without the log scale on the y axis.

[โ€“] j4yt33@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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