Are we in space?

Kottke mentions Bismarck, ND in a recent post relating to an astronaut running in space for the Boston marathon

If you’re running on a treadmill in Bismarck, North Dakota or Flagstaff Arizona or while orbiting the earth, are you really running the Boston Marathon?

Are we really that far from the rest of the world?

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