Oh, the first time I read this I had a completely wrong idea what it was about. I thought it was talking about like the Dalai Lama having being reincarnated or something.
Same. I was wondering how we count the number of people who claim to have been reincarnated.
You make a good point, the OP might have meant that.
More like 24. Low Earth Orbit is just hanging out in the porch. :)
And https://xkcd.com/893/ is arriving.
That’s under a thousand isn’t it? :P
Touché!
No one has gone far enough from earth to not be influenced by its gravity. Therefore anyone who has jumped into the air has been off the earth.
Nothing is far enough from Earth to not be influenced by it’s gravity, since gravitational interaction has infinite range. Even though it weakens over distance, it never reaches zero
Technically correct but there is a reason why people talk about a body’s sphere of influence.
But how many people have escaped the influence of Earths gravity altogether? None?
Right. The farthest people have been is the Moon, which is still gravitationally bound to the Earth. Plenty of spacecraft have been out of Earth’s gravity well, and also a car, but no humans.
What do you mean? I thought the car had an astronaut suit in the drivers seat containing the dessicated corpse of the real Elon Musk, after being murdered, memory-absorbed, and doppelganger-ed by the current version.
If that were the case the current version would have a goatee.
Long live the Empire.
That would explain a lot
You would never escape the influence of Earth’s gravity, as far as I know.
From what I understand everything in the universe has a slight gravitational effect no matter the distance, it’s just that the effect get infinitesimally small, but never reaching zero.
This is the reason why theoretical physicists and engineers rarely have fun together at parties.
I knew as soon as I typed this that someone would bring this up. 😵💫
I’m not sure about that. Millions of people get on a plane or hot air balloon each year and are no longer on earth until they land.
If you mean go into space then it depends on the definition of space. The international standard would list 655 people. But by the US definition there are more (mainly military aircraft personnel)
that’s not on the surface of earth. we all know what the post meant, that would be just pointlessly pedantic imo.
When you go in a plane you are not on the surface of the earth. So I still say the OP means go into space.
What about if you just jump, especially really high? or stand on a ladder? :P
Exactly, depends on your definition of space
