Hey, don't give up on the guy too quick.

First a deliberate mistake, then deliberate provocation; I was afraid
that a pun was coming next.

If he gets to that place closest to the Moon, I bet he'd let me stand
on his shoulders to prove that you can get still closer to the Moon by
walking...

You know, I was kinda getting into the thread until Mr. Munn Mann went off
the deep end...
Takes all kinds I guess.

Ratzzz...

Well no, this has no importance at all. All we'd done is proven
Sir Ranulph Fiennes ascent of Everest and his claim "This is the
closest you can get to the moon by walking" has no real basis in
geometry, there are many places you could walk to that are
closest to the moon at the time you take a stroll up a mountain.
The moon will be where it will be and if Everest is facing away
from the Moon then Sir Ranulph Fiennes is FURTHEST from
the Moon (which he will be 12 hours later as the Earth turns).

Homework assignment: look up the dictionary definitions of "surest"
and "infallible". Compare and contrast.

--
Jim Janney

Homework assignment: look up the dictionary definitions of "surest"
and "infallible". Compare and contrast.

--
Jim Janney

Jim:

You ain't going to win this one. No matter how good your argument is, this
moron is so full of himself that no amount of reason will ever change his
stance. When you're born with a peanut instead of brain, you simply don't
have the power to reason or conduct any sort of intelligent conversation.
I'm sure the doctors that are in charge of Mr. Clueless will eventually pull
his plug. This was an experiment that didn't work.

What did it prove...??? Well, you and everyone else can see that even those
with "Zero" (as in Androclueless' case) to meager amounts of consciousness
can actually work the internet. But Like Androclueless, it takes more than
meager intelligence to actually get involved and hold any form of
"intelligent" conversation...

Ratzzz...(Ohhh...and by the time he gets done kill-filing everyone, there
won't be a need to continue this thread...)

I don't have the Guiness Book at hand, but I seem to recall that it
says the farthest point from the Earth's center is Chimborazo
(20,561'/6,265m), in Ecuador.

In article <gvcgmt$a79$1 at (no spam) news.xmission.com>,
D_Frumious_B at (no spam) ndersnat.ch writes:
I don't have the Guiness Book at hand, but I seem to recall that it
says the farthest point from the Earth's center is Chimborazo
(20,561'/6,265m), in Ecuador.

Many years ago, Isaac Asimov wrote an article identifying the tallest
mountains on Earth by three different measures. Mt. Everest is of
course the highest above sea level, and Mauna Kea is the highest
measured from its base (which is far below the sea surface). The
third measure was from Earth's center, and I remember Asimov's answer
as being in the Andes, but I don't remember the name. It may well be
Chimborazo, as the previous poster sugggests. Whatever the answer
is, it must answer the OP's question.

According to a BBC report this morning, the explorer Fynes, having just
climbed Everest to become the first person to do this and cross both
Arctic and Antarctic, spoke of his ascent as being the closest you can
get to the Moon by walking.  This got me thinking.

Taken literally, you don't have to think long to realise it's at least
not always true, because the Moon isn't always overhead.  Know about the
moon's orbit, think a little longer, and you realise your timing has to
be just right.  Consider the shape of the Earth, and you will wonder if
Everest is even the right mountain to climb.

So how do you get closest to the Moon by walking?  Who might the current
record holder be?  And when and where could a record attempt be made?

Firstly, the Earth-Moon distance varies each month by several times the
diameter of the whole planet, never mind the height of a mountain, so
you have to choose exactly the right time of month.