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While the "Edge of Space" jump is impressive, it's somewhat scary to think that a corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins just 1 millimeter above its surface, amirite?

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I don't think it's scary, more so just interesting.

@TheBlindMan I don't think it's scary, more so just interesting.

I find it scary in the sense that humans are small compared to planets, which are small compared to the stars they orbit, which are small compared to other giant stars, which are small compared to the galaxies they are in, which are small compared to the universe they're in, which is small compared to the multiverse that it may be in.

Good thing I'm humongous compared to you guys.

Suns avatar Sun Yeah You Are +27Reply

Confused on how this is scary.

@HopeImrite Confused on how this is scary.

every time you comment i imagine you saying it with the face in your profile picture.
O.o

I read this a while ago, but I seriously do not understand what's being said. Can someone please help me feel less stupid?

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@rosebud I read this a while ago, but I seriously do not understand what's being said. Can someone please help me feel less...

Remember that guy Felix Baumgartner, who skydived from space to break the sound barrier? If the earth were the size of a globe in a classroom, Baumgartner would have jumped from a millimeter from the surface of the globe in comparison.

Suns avatar Sun Yeah You Are +22Reply
@Sun Remember that guy Felix Baumgartner, who skydived from space to break the sound barrier? If the earth were the size...

Thank you Sun!! I agree with Rainboots, I needed it to be reworded. A philosophical thought is hard to get out of a 140 character tweet, I guess.

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@rosebud I read this a while ago, but I seriously do not understand what's being said. Can someone please help me feel less...

The Earth is about 12000 km in diameter. The jump was about 40 km high. If you shrank 12000 km down to a globe size, the proportional decrease in 40 km would be about 1mm.

B10ckH34ds avatar B10ckH34d Yeah You Are +6Reply
@spareseconds made sense to me. It's just proportions.

It's no that what B10ckH34d said didn't make sense, it's just that it wasn't exactly a dumbed down version.

@Favvkes It's no that what B10ckH34d said didn't make sense, it's just that it wasn't exactly a dumbed down version.

Ohh... sorry. I thought he didn't get what OP was getting at. I don't know how to explain ratios without maths...

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That guy must have nerves of steel.

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nerves of balls?

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Now every time I see a globe i'm going to imagine little microscopic men in free-fall 1 mm above its surface.
O.O

...cool cool smilie

My science teacher was going over the layers of the atmosphere the other day, and to put things in perspective she pointed out about where he would have been.
We were all surprised by how low it looked on that picture.

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