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xkcd #3039: Human Altitude (xkcd.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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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€“] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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