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javcasas 2 days ago

Sit down. Now stand up. Congratulations, you just beat the gravity force generated by a whole f*cking planet.

ncruces 2 days ago | parent [-]

Now try to escape it.

javcasas 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

What limits me is the lack of solid matter to push against, not lack of strength in my muscles.

galangalalgol 2 days ago | parent [-]

Gpt says that would require about 275 million steps on a magic rigid weightless stairway. Roughly 4.1 million calories. So at Phelps level energy expenditures you are still talking over a year of climbing every day.

recursive 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

GPT not so good at elementary physics evidently.

0x000xca0xfe 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Assuming you don't have to carry your food... 4.1 million calories would be around 0.5 tons of olive oil.

LgWoodenBadger 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, 100kg raised 10000m is only about 2350 food calories, from a purely physics perspective.

galangalalgol 2 days ago | parent [-]

You'd need to go to about 47km for the end of the stairs to reach escape velocity I think? Past geo. Was using 20% efficiency. Still something off there.

lawlessone 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

ok, but what do you say?

teiferer 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You are not hiking much in the mountains, are you? 1000m of elevation gain per day are no problem for a slightly out of shape sit-all-day programmer. Not sure how high up you want me to go, but given a high enough mountain (and a thick jacket and supplemental oxygen) and most people here can do that in a few weeks or months.

ncruces 2 days ago | parent [-]

That doesn't really escape the gravity well, does it?

recursive 2 days ago | parent [-]

It would if there was a mountain that kept going up, and you had oxygen to breathe.

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sixothree 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Now if it were a magnet..