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Kármán line, a Rare card
The Kármán line is a conventional definition of the edge of space, it is widely but not universally accepted.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Kármán line quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kármán line card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ record-keeping body FAI defines the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 kilometres above mean sea level.
Answer
international. The international record-keeping body FAI defines the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 kilometres above mean sea level. From the Kármán line article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alan Silvestri. Alan Silvestri 74 · Lucas Pinheiro Braathen 71 · Kármán line 68 · Blord 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ron Harper. Ron Harper 890,000 · Lucas Pinheiro Braathen 600,000 · Edsel Ford 370,000 · Kármán line 280,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The international record-keeping body FAI defines the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 kilometres above mean sea level.
- While named after Theodore von Kármán, who calculated a theoretical limit of altitude for aeroplane flight at 83.8 km above Earth, the later-established Kármán line is more general and has no distinct physical significance, in that there is a rather gradual difference between the characteristics of the atmosphere at the line, and experts disagree on defining a distinct boundary where the…
- It lies well above the altitude reachable by conventional airplanes or high-altitude balloons, and it is approximately where satellites, even on very eccentric trajectories, will decay before completing a single orbit.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kármán line article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Kármán line
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kármán line (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
