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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.

Well that just makes the current era look pretty unimpressive.

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.

If you think about it, jumping/falling off a cliff is also an edge case...

somitomi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:30 amIf you think about it, jumping/falling off a cliff is also an edge case...

Depends on whether you're measuring from ground-level or sea-level, I suppose.

commodorejohn wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:40 pm

somitomi wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:30 amIf you think about it, jumping/falling off a cliff is also an edge case...

Depends on whether you're measuring from ground-level or sea-level, I suppose.

No, it's a clever a joke at any altitude

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You see, it's a pun, or play on words, because it's the edge of a cliff you fall off

commodorejohn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:13 am

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*rimshot*

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Only if you fall off with two drums and a cymbal

I don't even have to click to know