What Size Giant Would You Be?

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The Dead Sea Scrolls give Goliath’s height as six feet seven inches. Herodotus describes Orestes as ten feet tall. Pausanias suggests Ajax may have been 14 feet tall. Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual puts some giants at twenty to thirty feet tall.

How big of a Giant do you want to be?

I would like to be an eight foot tall Giant and weigh about 600 lbs.

This would give me the size to tower over everyone I encounter and cause fear in anyone I wanted. Although I would be a freak of nature Iâ??m confident my boyish charm would keep human women from being terrified of me and while there would undoubtedly be many size-queens looking to hook it up with me just for the experience, Iâ??m sure I could find true love and settle down at some point.

While homes with 8 foot ceilings would be tough for me to squeeze into I would be able to find a house with 10 foot ceilings I could comfortably live in. My office has 10 foot ceilings and most bars and restaurants and shopping facilities are at least ten feet, so I think visiting relatives and friends would be the only scenarios Iâ??d have to hunch.

Now donâ??t let my well thought out reasons for wanting to be an eight foot tall giant distract you from confessing youâ??d like to be a fourteen foot (or taller) giant. All we ask is some thought be put into your answer rather than everyone just yelling out a number.

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I had a very difficult time with the theory behind how much a giant of a certain height would reasonably weigh given a normal person’s proportions. BMI starts breaking down very quickly before you really even hit the 7 foot mark. So I’m really unsure of exactly how tall I would need to be.

Anyway I can tell you I would want to weigh at least 20,000lbs. I estimate that my height would need to be at least 30ft, but as I said, I had trouble with the mathematics of my answer.

Regardless, in this way I would be the most powerful terrestrial organism alive today. Things such as hippos, rhinos, and elephants would be to me as dogs are now.

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None, since it severely limits or eliminates the populous of vagina’s that could handle such a member belonging to someone of ‘giant’ stature.

Csulli, good luck finding anything but a fissure or shallow river bend able to handle the crank of a 20,000 lb person unless you wanna start banging Blue Whales.

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[quote]Waittz wrote:
None, since it severely limits or eliminates the populous of vagina’s that could handle such a member belonging to someone of ‘giant’ stature.

Csulli, good luck finding anything but a fissure or shallow river bend able to handle the crank of a 20,000 lb person unless you wanna start banging Blue Whales. [/quote]

I think most north american women would be quite capable actually…for you Chris, I’d at least try…

Aren’t giants the offspring of the nephalim dalliance with human women?

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[quote]csulli wrote:
I had a very difficult time with the theory behind how much a giant of a certain height would reasonably weigh given a normal person’s proportions. BMI starts breaking down very quickly before you really even hit the 7 foot mark. So I’m really unsure of exactly how tall I would need to be.

Anyway I can tell you I would want to weigh at least 20,000lbs. I estimate that my height would need to be at least 30ft, but as I said, I had trouble with the mathematics of my answer.

Regardless, in this way I would be the most powerful terrestrial organism alive today. Things such as hippos, rhinos, and elephants would be to me as dogs are now.[/quote]

I was going to say something along these lines but could not justify my answer very well.

I 9.5 ton T-rex was roughly 40 ft long from tail to snout. I figure I would wanna be somewhere around there but just reallocating the LBM of my tail for some bigger arms.

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[quote]Waittz wrote:
None, since it severely limits or eliminates the populous of vagina’s that could handle such a member belonging to someone of ‘giant’ stature.

Csulli, good luck finding anything but a fissure or shallow river bend able to handle the crank of a 20,000 lb person unless you wanna start banging Blue Whales. [/quote]

Start?

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Those “historical” giant heights are really interesting, thanks.

I’m not sure what my answer would be, but this got me thinking: would there be any point in being muscular (proportionally) as a giant?

I suppose if you were over say 10 feet tall, but with the build of an average/skinny human scaled up, you would still be stronger than pretty much anything else out there. Which begs the question - if you were a giant - would you train, and how? Haha.

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[quote]sen say wrote:

While homes with 8 foot ceilings would be tough for me to squeeze into I would be able to find a house with 10 foot ceilings I could comfortably live in. My office has 10 foot ceilings and most bars and restaurants and shopping facilities are at least ten feet, so I think visiting relatives and friends would be the only scenarios I’d have to hunch.[/quote]

Door frames
Low-hanging light fixtures (nailed many time, hurts like M–ther F—er)
Getting in/our of all vehicles
Any sort of mechanical work (like under a drilling rig – hit head every 5 minutes)
Having to have vehicle seats modifies to sit back another 6 inches
Army bed, feet hang off the end
Blankets never long enough at a hotel
Most chairs, you hit knees on bottom of table
Daily “hows the weather” jokes
Clothes outside of very basics not made for you
Hands won’t fit inside gloves
Fingers won’t fit inside small frame automatic weapons.
Grip of average weapon leaves 2 fingers hanging off the bottom

Every bar has a drunk who picks you to fight him
Every bar has a stupid girl who gets in a pinch and expects you to recue her

+++++++++

I enjoy being very tall, but the world is made for 6’2" tall people or whatever average is.

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[quote]furo wrote:
Those “historical” giant heights are really interesting, thanks.

I’m not sure what my answer would be, but this got me thinking: would there be any point in being muscular (proportionally) as a giant?

I suppose if you were over say 10 feet tall, but with the build of an average/skinny human scaled up, you would still be stronger than pretty much anything else out there. Which begs the question - if you were a giant - would you train, and how? Haha.[/quote]

Tuck in your elbows, for one.

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[quote]csulli wrote:
I had a very difficult time with the theory behind how much a giant of a certain height would reasonably weigh given a normal person’s proportions. BMI starts breaking down very quickly before you really even hit the 7 foot mark. So I’m really unsure of exactly how tall I would need to be.

Anyway I can tell you I would want to weigh at least 20,000lbs. I estimate that my height would need to be at least 30ft, but as I said, I had trouble with the mathematics of my answer.

Regardless, in this way I would be the most powerful terrestrial organism alive today. Things such as hippos, rhinos, and elephants would be to me as dogs are now.[/quote]
Simply preserving proportionalities, a 30 foot person is 5 times taller than a 6 foot man. Since mass is related to volume, you would expect him to weigh 125 times more (5 cubed). So if the average 6 foot man is 200lbs, a 30 foot man would be 25000lbs.

However, proportionalities don’t work because your bones would be crushed for the same reason that a spider would crush itself if blown up to human size. Basically, the strength of your bones and muscles is proportional to their cross sectional area while their mass is proportional to their volume. So, basically you would need legs, arms, and a torso that would be proportionally thicker just to remain functional. So to account for the difference between volume and area, you’d probably have to increase that 125 multiplier to the power of 3/2. So a 30 foot human would probably be about 1400 times heavier than a 6 foot human or about 280,000 lbs.

So doing the math, if our model is a 6 foot 200 lb human, you would only need to be about 16.7 feet tall in order to weigh 20,000 lbs. That’s all theoretical but, for reference, African elephants stand up to 13 feet tall and weigh up to 15,000 lbs. Elephants are quadripeds, so giants would be expected to be a little more vertical. Your core and legs have to be really thick to support all of that mass, so you’re going to be huge. If you don’t like the image of a blob, you could also imagine that your bones and muscles are just much denser than an average human so proportionally you look the same. As far as elephants being dog sized, at 17 feet you’re already pretty much there with the biggest elephants being smaller and lighter than you.

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In thinking about this rather than doing any of the thousand things I should be doing instead, it occurs to me that I am the exact height and size I want to be. However, I would like to be able to supersize when necessary, and then only to the degree needed to vanquish any enemies I might feel need vanquishing. Then back to normal.

I think 7’ with adequate brawn would do it for me.

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[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
However, I would like to be able to supersize when necessary, [/quote]

No supersizing.

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[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
Every bar has a drunk who picks you to fight him
[/quote]
As someone whose best friend is in the 6’6"-6’7" range, I found this phenomenon very interesting. I have a theory about the whole thing. See as someone who is personally of very average height but more heavily muscled than your run of the mill frat daddy, no one ever wants to fight me at a bar. Interestingly however despite the fact that one would think my enormous friend would be even less susceptible to confrontation, in reality it’s the opposite!

The drunken jackass in question desires to prove himself by taking down the biggest dude in the bar. If he succeeds, it is a heroic victory. However even if he loses, he still gets the consolation of being able to say he fought a 6’6" 300lb man. No one will be too hard on him for losing in that scenario. Regarding me however, there’s no real glory in beating up some dude who’s 5’9", but I’m too big to be a sure victory, so the risk/reward makes it completely not worth it.

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[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
In thinking about this rather than doing any of the thousand things I should be doing instead, it occurs to me that I am the exact height and size I want to be. However, I would like to be able to supersize when necessary, and then only to the degree needed to vanquish any enemies I might feel need vanquishing. Then back to normal.

I think 7’ with adequate brawn would do it for me. [/quote]
So basically you want to be normal Emily size, except when you say “Apache Chief Eh-neeek-chock!” at which point you literally turn into TTR.

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
In thinking about this rather than doing any of the thousand things I should be doing instead, it occurs to me that I am the exact height and size I want to be. However, I would like to be able to supersize when necessary, and then only to the degree needed to vanquish any enemies I might feel need vanquishing. Then back to normal.

I think 7’ with adequate brawn would do it for me. [/quote]
So basically you want to be normal Emily size, except when you say “Apache Chief Eh-neeek-chock!” at which point you literally turn into TTR.[/quote]

Alas, I fail at the “adequate brawn” part of the scenario.

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
In thinking about this rather than doing any of the thousand things I should be doing instead, it occurs to me that I am the exact height and size I want to be. However, I would like to be able to supersize when necessary, and then only to the degree needed to vanquish any enemies I might feel need vanquishing. Then back to normal.

I think 7’ with adequate brawn would do it for me. [/quote]
So basically you want to be normal Emily size, except when you say “Apache Chief Eh-neeek-chock!” at which point you literally turn into TTR.[/quote]

Yes. I’m prepared to watch for light fixtures and tuck my elbows in unless using them to vanquish someone.

And yes I CAN supersize if I want.

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[quote]Waittz wrote:
None, since it severely limits or eliminates the populous of vagina’s that could handle such a member belonging to someone of ‘giant’ stature.

[/quote]

Gene Wolf explains how the giants mate with humans in the 2nd book of this series:

If memory serves, the preferred method is the giant lays (literally and figuratively!) on his back and the woman he is mating with gets a bunch of her women friends and they climb up on the giant and basically just go at his wang with everything they got…

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[quote]EmilyQ wrote:

And yes I CAN supersize if I want. [/quote]

No. No. No. That’s NOT the point! You could then say, “Well, Sen old chap, I’d like to be an 8 foot giant sometimes, a 10 foot giant sometimes or a 30 foot giant or just my normal self.” WTF is the point then?!?!?

Pick a size and stick to it.

Dammit.

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
Every bar has a drunk who picks you to fight him
[/quote]
As someone whose best friend is in the 6’6"-6’7" range, I found this phenomenon very interesting. I have a theory about the whole thing. See as someone who is personally of very average height but more heavily muscled than your run of the mill frat daddy, no one ever wants to fight me at a bar. Interestingly however despite the fact that one would think my enormous friend would be even less susceptible to confrontation, in reality it’s the opposite!

The drunken jackass in question desires to prove himself by taking down the biggest dude in the bar. If he succeeds, it is a heroic victory. However even if he loses, he still gets the consolation of being able to say he fought a 6’6" 300lb man. No one will be too hard on him for losing in that scenario. Regarding me however, there’s no real glory in beating up some dude who’s 5’9", but I’m too big to be a sure victory, so the risk/reward makes it completely not worth it.[/quote]

Yeah man, that’s how we roll in TN. lol. your theory is spot on in my experience in the NAVY. I had a buddy who was like 6’-8". Was a pretty big fucker and one of the most laid back guys I’ve known. People at bars and stuff just seemed to gravitate to this “poor” guy. Fortunately for most, he was slow to anger but holy shit if they’d manage to piss him off. It would look like midget bowling or some shit. haah.

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I have a hard enough time finding clothes that fit and getting comfortable in most cars already. I’d be happy just adding a few inches to my… vertical leap or something