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

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.

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recursive 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

GPT not so good at elementary physics evidently.

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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.

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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?