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How high are you now?
If i were a bird, how high could I go?
Submitted 4 days ago by sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
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TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Good and you?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Condition: grounded, but determined to try.
gole@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Scroll up and see!
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That was really cool, thanks!
mech@feddit.org 3 days ago
Fun fact: A real space elevator would need to be 458x as long to reach geostationary orbit.
At the speed of earth’s current fastest elevator, it would take almost a month to reach the top.roomy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Why does the temperature increase at 40,000m?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles of a thing. In the vacuum of space, there are very few particles, and they are mostly moving very very fast, which gives them high energy and high temperature.
I forget what happens at 40,000 m that causes the shift from cold atmosphere to “this is space” but that’s how the temperature is increasing – as you climb there are fewer and fewer particles, moving faster and faster.
gole@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Good question. I don’t know the answer but it started to get warmer from the stratosphere at 16km
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
If I was a bass, how low could I go? 🤔
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 4 days ago
E1, about 41.2Hz
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Could you go down low?
All the way to the flo’ ?TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Profoundly.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I wish I had the voice of a basso profundo…
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Lmao birds are not real
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird could get you up to 85,000 feet (26.000 meters).
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I guess I have to count this as a type of bird!
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Albeit a decomissioned one. 😥
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 days ago
🤏 take a hit of this and find out, mannn
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Twice as high as a butterfly.
regedit@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I read it in a book when I took a look!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
The reading rainbow ❤️🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🌈
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Flightless
snooggums@piefed.world 4 days ago
Penguin = 0 m
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
High enough to fly far far away
Lexam@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Due to the density of your bones you would be flightless.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Higher than Senator’s socks!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I don’t get this one
ClipperDefiance@piefed.social 4 days ago
It depends on the species, but the highest recorded bird was a Rüppell’s Vulture at 37,000 feet (11,300 meters).
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Vultures are badass. One of my absolute favorite birds to see.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s fucking wild, wtf is a vulture gonna do at 37,000 feet. Ain’t no carrion up there buddy, overachieving ass bird smh.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 days ago
“Leave me the fuck alone” or “maybe there’s something to east above that clouds” 🤷♂️
I guess it took a too strong current.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
That is amazing 🪶
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Also the Wikipedia article has a link to this amazing piece: the highest-flying bird.
Also, and this is kind of morbid, turns out the reason they know it was flying so high is because one of them got sucked into an aircraft engine at that height…