mountaintop

And the mountaintop is accelerating more because it's in circular motion with a larger radius.

That's the case whether the human in question is a famous tenured professor or a hermit on a mountaintop.

You get mountaintop mining in which the whole top of a mountain top is removed to get to the coal.

However, the effect of gravity is much more significant (if it weren't, the mountaintop would be flying out into space due to centripetal force).

The mountaintop doesn't travel faster through space-time.

I know there are better understood and more imminent ecological disasters that accompany burning coal and oil (tailing ponds, mountaintop removal, air pollution and associated chronic illness).

If you look at a mountaintop and say 'I want to be there' and then change before getting to the top you're always going to think like that.

That's not as high as people imagine, and of course many of those people are gangbangers or suchlike rather than hippies who were smoking peacefully on a mountaintop and suddenly got arrested.

Is there only one person who can even read my fancy-pants source code, and might that person suddenly decide to become a guru and retire to a distant mountaintop with no cellular access?

As you go higher in the atmosphere (say on a mountaintop, or an airplane, or go into space) it becomes worse because of other charged particles that are no longer attenuated by the atmosphere.

I'd say they're perfectly fine for things like extending your LAN to your cabin up on a mountaintop, but not great tech to run an ISP off of (though people still try).

“I got a little confused where I was,” Coury said upon returning to camp, explaining that he took an eight-hour nap on a mountaintop after getting lost.

But we've got a strong system going of "astronomers can suck it, and if they want to look at the sky without our light getting in the way they can live up on a remote mountaintop where nobody else ever goes".