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Effects of High Altitude
    How life is different at one mile above sea level
    (e.g. in Denver)

[Eight small panels, each containing an image with a caption at the top:]

Water boils at 202°F
    [A pot on a stovetop, with steam rising from the pot]

Baseballs and golf balls fly 5-10% farther
    [A baseball flying through the air]

Sunburns develop significantly faster
    [Five wavy arrows hitting a curved surface]

Scrabble letters are worth 16% more
    [Scrabble tiles for letters Q, X and Y with point values 12, 9 and 5, respectively]

Breaking a mirror only causes 5½ years of bad luck
    [Cueball looking down at a broken hand mirror on the floor]

40 is the new 28
    [Cueball and Megan are talking. Megan is gesturing]
    Megan: 50 is the new 40, and when you account for elevation it's more like 37.

Nuclear war can be started with only 94 red balloons.
    [Five black balloons floating]

People make marijuana jokes slightly earlier
    [Cueball and Ponytail are talking. Ponytail is looking at her phone]
    Cueball: Hey, what time is it?
    Ponytail: 4:17 Blaze it!


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CC	Effects of High Altitude Effects of High Altitude How life is different at one mile above sea level (e.g. in Denver) [Eight small panels, each containing an image with a caption at the top:] Water boils at 202°F [A pot on a stovetop, with steam rising from the pot] Baseballs and golf balls fly 5-10% farther [A baseball flying through the air] Sunburns develop significantly faster [Five wavy arrows hitting a curved surface] Scrabble letters are worth 16% more [Scrabble tiles for letters Q, X and Y with point values 12, 9 and 5, respectively] Breaking a mirror only causes 5½ years of bad luck [Cueball looking down at a broken hand mirror on the floor] 40 is the new 28 [Cueball and Megan are talking. Megan is gesturing] Megan: 50 is the new 40, and when you account for elevation it's more like 37. Nuclear war can be started with only 94 red balloons. [Five black balloons floating] People make marijuana jokes slightly earlier [Cueball and Ponytail are talking. Ponytail is looking at her phone] Cueball: Hey, what time is it? Ponytail: 4:17 Blaze it! If she'd lived in Flagstaff (elevation 6,903 feet), Cruella de Vil would only have needed 89 dalmatians for her coat.