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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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[-] kbal@fedia.io 51 points 6 months ago

I'm more interested in the altitude of the median human. I suppose it's increased slightly since the invention of office buildings, chairs, and so on.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 months ago

Chairs were a game changer

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Chairs are overrated. I pretty much always choose the floor. Even the couch tends to be used mostly as a backrest for sitting on the floor

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

The floor is great. It’s really hard to fall off the floor.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

vertigo enters chat

[-] pixelscript@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

I wonder if it may well have gone down with the combination of boom in population and rapid urbanization around coasts.

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