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View Poll Results: How high can you get?
0m 5 35.71%
25m 2 14.29%
50m 1 7.14%
75m 0 0%
100m 1 7.14%
125m 5 35.71%
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Old 06-24-2012, 02:59 PM
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How high can you get?

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Old 06-24-2012, 03:21 PM
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Depends on the drugs.

You would seem to have some good stuff.



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Old 06-24-2012, 05:01 PM
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Old 06-24-2012, 05:15 PM
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Depends on the drugs.
Or the size of the catapult.
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Old 06-24-2012, 05:19 PM
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What is "Jump"?


-D/a
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Old 06-24-2012, 05:41 PM
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What is "Jump"?


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This.
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Old 06-24-2012, 05:44 PM
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I've been as high as a dwarf in a helium hat.

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Old 06-24-2012, 05:47 PM
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"I used to do drugs.
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Oh, I still do them, but I used to do them, too."

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Old 06-24-2012, 06:11 PM
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I assume that the OP is talking about Donkey Kong?

I have it on my Mame emulator. Without turning on cheats, probably 50m.
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Old 06-24-2012, 06:12 PM
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Find another hobby.
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Old 06-24-2012, 06:49 PM
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If so, this thread would be about jumping up and falling down again. That song is more about just falling down and not getting up again.

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I assume that the OP is talking about Donkey Kong?

I have it on my Mame emulator. Without turning on cheats, probably 50m.
I rely on the forum the thread is in. Unless the OP lies, then all bets are off.

I am at about 1400m high right now, due to a bunch of smaller jumps. In a car.
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Old 06-24-2012, 07:20 PM
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What is "Jump"?
Wow. I make one piss-poor joke about Jeopardy, and Alex Trebek has a heart attack!


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Old 06-24-2012, 08:59 PM
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No, the correct answer is this.
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Old 06-24-2012, 11:15 PM
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I was tempted to close this for not having a point, but instead I'm just going to move it to MPSIMS.

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Old 06-25-2012, 07:08 AM
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I am as high as an elephant's eye.

Yes I am corn.
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Old 06-25-2012, 07:50 AM
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I selected 125m, which I assume means 125 mega-light-years, because that was the highest choice. Why did you stop there? I can get much higher than that.
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Old 06-25-2012, 12:59 PM
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But it's all I know.
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Old 07-01-2012, 06:13 AM
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I selected 125m, which I assume means 125 mega-light-years, because that was the highest choice. Why did you stop there? I can get much higher than that.
I dunno. Looking over the math it seems as though you are also lower than -125 Mly. I'm serious, it's unfalsifiable. See for yourself. And that means your uncertainty is a quarter of a gigalightyear. Why are you even posting? How poorly can a quantity be known?

What are we talking about anyway? How does one compare numerical uncertainty with uncertainty about the topic per se? I mean, the units don't match.
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Old 07-01-2012, 06:47 AM
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"I used to do drugs.
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Oh, I still do them, but I used to do them, too."

-- Mitch Hedberg
Well I don't drink any more.


But I also don't drink any less.
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Old 07-01-2012, 06:52 AM
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