| ▲ | ncruces 2 days ago |
| Now try to escape it. |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | lawlessone 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | ok, but what do you say? |
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| ▲ | 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. |
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| ▲ | 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.. |
