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Where things vanish, debts get conjured, and magic claims its favorite alibi.
means The phrase 'thin air' refers to nothingness or empty space, especially as the place where something appears from or disappears into without explanation.
from Literally from 'thin air' — the rarefied, low-density air of high altitudes, which Shakespeare helped lift into figurative use. In The Tempest he wrote of spirits melting 'into air, into thin air,' and the idea that things could vanish into or materialize out of that insubstantial nothing stuck fast in English ever since.
- oxygen drop
- At 8,000 meters air holds a third of sea-level oxygen.
- death zone
- Above 8,000m the body slowly dies without descent.
- figure of speech
- Means disappearance since at least the 1600s.
- shakespeare coined
- The Tempest gave us things melting into air.
- sound carries
- Thinner air actually slows and weakens sound waves.
mount everest — 29,032 feet elevation where climbers experience severe oxygen deprivation
the death zone — altitude above 26,000 feet on everest where human body cannot acclimatize
anden plateau — 12,000+ foot elevation across peru, bolivia, and chile where indigenous populations adapted over millennia