dillion writes:
who ru to say whats fiction and nonfiction look at the size of reptiles today and millons of years ago
I r1. The structure of the human skeleton is such that their height can not exceed approximately nine feet without major modification due to the height/weight ratio in this gravitational field.
To exceed this limitation we are looking at peg legs as in elephants (#1 in land dwelling weight), Hippos (#2), or Rhinos (#3). Among fossils, those real big plant eaters were essentially large elephants with extra neck and tail when it comes to structure.
The only way to get viable human skeletons over nine feet is going to require a lot of knuckle walking, if not a total rejection of bipedalism.
Sorry, blame Newton for limiting these fantasies. It is called mechanics, as in engineering mechanics. Refutation of this field would involve the revocation of the equation of gravity, a violation of which has never been observed throughout history, on any gravitational body, or even amongst many gravitational bodies (think NASA).
Edited by anglagard, : plural in last phrase
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