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Gpt says that would require about 275 million steps on a magic rigid weightless stairway. Roughly 4.1 million calories. So at Phelps level energy expenditures you are still talking over a year of climbing every day.


GPT not so good at elementary physics evidently.


Assuming you don't have to carry your food... 4.1 million calories would be around 0.5 tons of olive oil.


Well, 100kg raised 10000m is only about 2350 food calories, from a purely physics perspective.


You'd need to go to about 47km for the end of the stairs to reach escape velocity I think? Past geo. Was using 20% efficiency. Still something off there.


ok, but what do you say?




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