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pleb_nz | 2 years ago

Maybe they were using earth measurements? 3500 metered is getting pretty close to 11000 imperial feet.

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nkoren|2 years ago

Yeah, might be. The use of the single-quote "3500'" is a pretty standard way of indicating feet, and I've never seen meters denoted that way. At the same time, I can easily imagine getting confused by the scale: there's a lot of ways in which the landscape there just doesn't look as big as it actually is, since a lot of the normal perception cues (humidity haze, trees, etc.) are missing.

pleb_nz|2 years ago

Indeed a single quote is. But it 3500m being close to 11000ft feels very coincidental.