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A year ago on the return trip from #SolarEclipse2024, I stopped by the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radiotelescope, near Socorro NM. https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/112261585762946997 #astronomy #space #spacegeek #travel
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Continuing to visit #space related landmarks on the way home from #SolarEclipse2024, I saw the US🇺🇸 National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA)🔭 in Socorro County, New Mexico. 27 radio antennas use interferometry to act like a big dish the width of the array. #astronomy
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![XKCD comic #3039 "Human Altitude" https://xkcd.com/3039/
explanation from explainXKCD at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
Title text: 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.
Explanation (edited to add):
The comic purports to show the altitudes of humans over time, starting from a little after 1700. It uses a logarithmic vertical scale in order to indicate the finer details of 'low level' altitudes, yet fit the highest achievements onto the page. The measurements do not count altitude due to the ground beneath them, so a resident of Tibet or the high Peruvian Andes (for example) does not normally gain any particular advantage.
[...]](https://cdn.masto.host/spaceyspace/media_attachments/files/113/846/725/011/741/588/original/3e8bdeaef5389ec1.png "XKCD comic #3039 \"Human Altitude\" https://xkcd.com/3039/
explanation from explainXKCD at https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude
Title text: 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.
Explanation (edited to add):
The comic purports to show the altitudes of humans over time, starting from a little after 1700. It uses a logarithmic vertical scale in order to indicate the finer details of 'low level' altitudes, yet fit the highest achievements onto the page. The measurements do not count altitude due to the ground beneath them, so a resident of Tibet or the high Peruvian Andes (for example) does not normally gain any particular advantage.
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