How a Simple Question About Feet and Kilometers Revealed a Major Space Myth

This question is in honor of New Shepard and Blue Origin because you know on their live streams, Blue Origin, they love to call them astronauts and you can become an astronaut if you fly on New Shepard and they love to talk about you'll be a real astronaut because you're gonna cross the karma line which is the internationally designated line of space and you'll really be a real astronaut and then they measure everything in feet. So in honor of that, what altitude is the karma line in feet? Is it 328,083.989 feet, 346,418.661 feet, 165,476.145 feet, or 463,962.658 feet. I need clarification on this question. Yeah, this is uh Ryan you're gonna lose points on this question. It's an American unit, what do you mean clarification? The problem is the karma line. No, no, no, I need clarification on whose karma line are you asking for because your question gears it like it's asking about the real one, not the virgin one, the real one, not the virgin one. Wait, wait, wait, hang on. No, the karma line is the real one. Hang on, hang on. I'm going to look up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to look at the actual definition of karma line because it is, uh, uh, where is it? Yeah, it does vary too. Yeah, that's the problem is the karma line is so you are all you, Ryan is assuming the karma line is at a hundred kilometers, right? And are you, and are you saying, because that's what Blue Origin said. And are you saying AGL or MSL? A hundred kilometers. AGL or MSL? It's a hundred kilometers MSL, right? That's what the karma line is. That's what Blue Origin says. There's, there's four ways this question is wrong. So the karma line is specifically, it's the definition of the edge of space. Um, um, you calculated the theoretical limit of altitude for aeroplane flight at 83.8 kilometers at the actual karma line or 52.1 miles. That's not what Blue Origin, that's not what Blue Origin calls their karma line. They call it a hundred kilometers, which is what I'm asking this question about. So in honor of Blue, in honor of Blue, that's what they say. So you're, so you're asking about Blue Origin's definition of the karma line. Yeah. So Blue Origin's karma line would be, um, it'd be a hundred kilometers MSL, mean sea level. Okay. I mean, I don't think it matters whether it's MSL or AGL. This question is what is a hundred kilometers in feet? That's what this question is. You see, you should have just asked what is a hundred kilometers in feet. All right. Who's answering? That's what this question is. If in that case, the Von Karman line over, over Everest is 25,000 feet shorter. That does matter. AGL versus MSL. Yeah. Right. Just so you know, Ryan, you're losing points on this question, but all right, let's, let's, you can't stop that now. Let's just be honest. Who's going first? Like who do you want to go first? Jamie, you go first. I have no idea, Ryan. I have no idea. So I'm going to pick A because I have no clue. Okay. Dutta. I'm going to pick A as well. 28 sounds roughly like a hundred kilometers. Uh, it's definitely a 328,000 feet. Otherwise known as 62 miles. Otherwise known as a hundred kilometers. Wait, wait, wait. How do you wait? No, no, there's no way. You know, that brought the space, right? I, I think you cheated John. No, John already knows the answer. He can't, he can't know the answers. Yes. What did the chat room say? Well, we know it's a, because we know the chat room's cheating. We voted A. There's no way. No, no, no, no, no. All right. I picked A. You want to know why I picked A? I picked A because last time I picked D and so I went the other way. I got lucky. Is it A? It is A. A is the correct answer. Okay. Yeah. I knew it was A because the chat room picked A because the chat room's cheating. Okay. Virgin Galactic's von And that's why they don't count.