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...
P.S. look at the Mallard Duck overachieving on that list!
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.
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.
36 Comments
ClipperDefiance@piefed.social · 47 pts · 77d
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 · 15 pts · 77d
Vultures are badass. One of my absolute favorite birds to see.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 77d
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 · 4 pts · 76d
"Leave me the fuck alone" or "maybe there's something to eat above that cloud" 🤷♂️
I guess it took a too strong current.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 76d
That is amazing 🪶
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...
P.S. look at the Mallard Duck overachieving on that list!
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 71d
But can they see my house from there?
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 77d
How high are you now?
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 77d
Good and you?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 76d
Condition: grounded, but determined to try.
gole@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 77d
https://neal.fun/space-elevator/
Scroll up and see!
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 77d
That was really cool, thanks!
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 76d
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 · 2 pts · 76d
Why does the temperature increase at 40,000m?
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 76d
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 · 1 pts · 76d
Good question. I don't know the answer but it started to get warmer from the stratosphere at 16km
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 77d
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 77d
E1, about 41.2Hz
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 77d
Sea or plain
spizzat2@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 77d
Electric
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 76d
Could you go down low?
All the way to the flo' ?
TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 77d
Profoundly.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 76d
I wish I had the voice of a basso profundo...
https://youtu.be/4ROGUmsnyDg
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 77d
A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird could get you up to 85,000 feet (26.000 meters).
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 76d
I guess I have to count this as a type of bird!
akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 76d
Albeit a decomissioned one. 😥
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 77d
Lmao birds are not real
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 76d
🤏 take a hit of this and find out, mannn
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 63d
😤
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 77d
Twice as high as a butterfly.
regedit@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 76d
I read it in a book when I took a look!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 76d
The reading rainbow ❤️🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🌈
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 77d
Flightless
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 77d
Penguin = 0 m
Lexam@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d
Due to the density of your bones you would be flightless.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 76d
High enough to fly far far away
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 77d
Higher than Senator's socks!
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 76d
I don't get this one
Imperious_melange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d