Polite Dissent

Picture Quiz

July 19th, 2004

Filed under: Comics

What’s wrong with this picture (from JSA #17, art by Sadowki & Bair, words by Goyer & Johns)?
image from JSA #17

HINT: What’s the cruising altitude of a 737?

Shane
July 20th, 2004 at 12:46 am

Heh heh heh, nice catch. 37,000 feet is cruising. I knew that off the top of my head. Sure did. No google here.
Doug
January 8th, 2007 at 4:45 am

*At 25,000 feet, there is still some air - otherwise planes couldn’t fly. However, there is not enough oxygen at that height to sustain human life.
*However, judging by the curvature of the earth in this image, they are actually **MUCH** higher than 25,000 feet.
*It wouldn’t be necessary to ascend any higher to asphyxiate — they are high enough already.
*Given their true height is about 250,000 feet (note the extra zero) and they are in sunlight, the percieved temperature would be very HIGH, not freezing.
*Given the rarity of the atmosphere it would be near-impossible to speak — or indeed transmit any sort of sound.
Isabel
November 11th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

if they were at 25,000 feet, both men would be much closer to Earth. I doubt space would be visible.