#Geography

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

#Geography

Which of these four countries is the closest to "space"?

(No cheating)

[hohokam@mastodon.sdf.org]

@HopelessDemigod overall or on average?

[kkarhan@c.im]

@HopelessDemigod how do you define the term "closest to space"?

You do realize both PRC-occupied #Tibet and #Nepal border at the peak of #MountEverest??

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@kkarhan

Yup I know about Mount Everest and the two counties that stake claim to it.

Defining the term is what the scientific mind strives to archive. If I spoke more of it, the answer would become obvious.

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@hohokam

Mathematically on pure numbers. From X to Y.

[hohokam@mastodon.sdf.org]

@HopelessDemigod and since we're all "in space" in the sense that "everything is in space", is this a trick question or judging by the thickness of the atmosphere to the Karman Line?

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@hohokam

One of the choices is scientifically correct. (In the poll)

[notyoursysadmin@infosec.exchange]

@HopelessDemigod I voted under the assumption that you were meaning "the country that is the furthest from the exact center of the Earth", which I took to explain the interesting wording of the poll.

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@HopelessDemigod I answered Ecuador because Earth is ASN ellipsoid and thus countries like Ecuador arer further from the center of the Easrth than countries like Nepal at higher latitudes.

[hopelessdemigod@mstdn.social]

@fazalmajid

That is the correct answer

[ve7wyc@mstdn.ca]

@fazalmajid @HopelessDemigod For sure. Having lived in Ecuador for 4 years, it is a point of local pride that the top of Mount Chimborazo is the farthest point from the centre of the earth, another way to describe "closest to space".