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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
very approximate
But what are the constant dips between years?
Must be years without launches.
So in 1882 nobody went above 1.5 meters.
I want to see how this looks without the log scale on the y axis.
Should include below the earth’s surface too. That would be a lot less impressive.
Poster’s note: I just noticed it uploaded and didn’t see it posted yet, so I rectified that.
But the Apollo program was fake propaganda!
