# How high can you get?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 24, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176 "2012-06-24T19:59:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/1 "2012-06-24T19:59:52Z")
How high can you get?
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### Author:  [@oreally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oreally)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/2 "2012-06-24T20:21:26Z")
Depends on the drugs.
You would seem to have some good stuff.
😉
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/3 "2012-06-24T22:01:37Z")
Other
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/4 "2012-06-24T22:15:18Z")
> [@oreally](#):
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> Depends on the drugs.
Or the size of the catapult.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/5 "2012-06-24T22:19:09Z")
What is “Jump”?
-D/a
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/6 "2012-06-24T22:41:38Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#):
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> What is “Jump”?
> -D/a
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM).
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/7 "2012-06-24T22:44:11Z")
I’ve been as high as a dwarf in a helium hat.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/8 "2012-06-24T22:47:07Z")
“I used to do drugs.
.
.
Oh, I still do them, but I _used_ to do them, too.”
– Mitch Hedberg
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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/9 "2012-06-24T23:11:22Z")
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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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/10 "2012-06-24T23:12:37Z")
Find another hobby.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/11 "2012-06-24T23:49:43Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM).
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.
> [@Nobody](#):
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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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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/12 "2012-06-25T00:20:21Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#):
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> What is “Jump”?
Wow. I make one piss-poor joke about Jeopardy, and [Alex Trebek has a heart attack](http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/24/showbiz/alex-trebek-heart-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)!
-D/a
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/13 "2012-06-25T01:59:33Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#):
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> [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM).
No, the correct answer is [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6UnvSlahc).
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/14 "2012-06-25T04:15:32Z")
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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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/15 "2012-06-25T12:08:08Z")
I am as high as an elephant’s eye.
Yes I am corn.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/16 "2012-06-25T12:50:57Z")
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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### Author:  [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/17 "2012-06-25T17:59:04Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#):
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> Find another hobby.
But it’s all I know. ☹
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2012, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/18 "2012-07-01T11:13:38Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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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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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/19 "2012-07-01T11:47:32Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> “I used to do drugs.
> .
> .
> 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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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-can-you-get/626176/20 "2012-07-01T11:52:50Z")
To the Toppermost of the Poppermost!