#Microblog Monday 439: Above You

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Space Elevator is the latest interactive website by Neal.Fun. You scroll and get a sense of what happens above you and the distance between each stage of space.

So, for instance, you can see the height various birds can fly, the height paratroopers jump, and the cruising altitude of a passenger jet. And then the Armstrong Limit. The sky changes as you go up, and the counter at the bottom tracks the height from Earth (and the counter in the top right corner tracks the temperature). I felt dizzy when I realized how high Felix Baumgartner was when he did his freefall. And then you keep going and keep going until you reach space.

It is such a brilliant way to teach something.

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