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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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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Chairs were a game changer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

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