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They should have had a 737 communicating with the sub, tweeting it, at -35755 Feet below sea level - that is the same distance that commercial airlines cruise at.

They would have had the world record for "longest vertical distance between two terrestrial crafts communicating with one another"



Why is a commercial airline more terrestrial than a space shuttle or the Apollo Command Module? /pedantry


I was trying to specify "within atmosphere" meaning it would be the furthest vertical distance two people could communicate from without being in space.

However I now realize that we have flown planes far higher than ~70K feet - which would have been a greater distance that what i was thinking.




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