[quote]theBeth wrote:
I think most north american women would be quite capable actually…for you Chris, I’d at least try…
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Are you saying Mexican, Canadian and good ol’ US of A vaginas are all spherically similar and larger than other continents?
[quote]sen say wrote:
[quote]theBeth wrote:
I think most north american women would be quite capable actually…for you Chris, I’d at least try…
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Are you saying Mexican, Canadian and good ol’ US of A vaginas are all spherically similar and larger than other continents?[/quote]
One could surmise that they see more use and thus it’s possible to infer that they are comparatively larger, yes. I may be way off track here. The French might throw those figures off a bit.
Grizzlyberg and Csulli…how would you guys live…what would your day-to-day be like? I’m believing at 8 feet I would be able to live in society and continue my ‘normal’ life…I’d just be 8 feet tall and 600 lbs. WAY out of the norm, but still functional.
[quote]theBeth wrote:
[quote]sen say wrote:
[quote]theBeth wrote:
I think most north american women would be quite capable actually…for you Chris, I’d at least try…
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Are you saying Mexican, Canadian and good ol’ US of A vaginas are all spherically similar and larger than other continents?[/quote]
One could surmise that they see more use and thus it’s possible to infer that they are comparatively larger, yes. I may be way off track here. The French might throw those figures off a bit.[/quote]
I would think SO! And how about the Greeks? They never stop!
[quote]sen say wrote:
[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.
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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… [/quote]
So having a bunch of tiny people jumping up and down hugging your junk is supposed to be a subsitute to sex? Pass.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Grizzlyberg and Csulli…how would you guys live…what would your day-to-day be like? I’m believing at 8 feet I would be able to live in society and continue my ‘normal’ life…I’d just be 8 feet tall and 600 lbs. WAY out of the norm, but still functional.[/quote]
Wouldn’t really care about living a normal life. I would go live in some caverns on an island kind of like the Mist Giants in D&D. I just think it would be cool to kind of be an urban legend or a myth.
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]sen say wrote:
[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.
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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… [/quote]
So having a bunch of tiny people jumping up and down hugging your junk is supposed to be a subsitute to sex? Pass. [/quote]
It has a certain appeal…
[quote]Waittz wrote:
[quote]sen say wrote:
[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.
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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… [/quote]
So having a bunch of tiny people jumping up and down hugging your junk is supposed to be a subsitute to sex? Pass. [/quote]
Clearly we just need some women to agree to be slightly less giant giants, and then we can have sex with them. Then non-giant humans will begin to feel threatened at the growing giant population(because I’ve seen no stipulation that we are handicapped in any way by our gigantism), and kill us off with weapons. Sad day for all of us.
Ancient Historian Flavius Josephus on the Giants from his ‘‘Antiquities Of The Jews’’.
'Sounds like they were scary to look at, AND hear…FEEE FIII FO FUM!!!..
Flavius Josephus (37-100 AD):
“For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the site, and terrible to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, unlike to any credible relations of other men.”
[quote]Silyak wrote:
[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. [/quote]
280,000 lbs just sounds like it can’t possibly be correct. That’s double the mass of all but the absolute largest sauropods ever. It could be totally possible and I’m just woefully understating the girth increase that a man would undergo to become 30ft tall.
I’ve actually been to the Giants of the Mesozoic exhibit at the museum in Atlanta, so I’ve seen the (estimated) restoration of the Argentinosaurus skeleton, even knowing that the proposed human would be significantly taller(by 7 or so feet), I just can’t imagine anything more massive on the whole.
Can you imagine the daily caloric intake required just to maintain a body mass of one, ten, or (the mind boggles) a hundred tons? How many kilograms of protein per day? You would have to live in China or India and eat people all day long, because that’s the only protein source plentiful enough to sustain you.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Can you imagine the daily caloric intake required just to maintain a body mass of one, ten, or (the mind boggles) a hundred tons? How many kilograms of protein per day? You would have to live in China or India and eat people all day long, because that’s the only protein source plentiful enough to sustain you. [/quote]
So, you will either be hungry in an hour or have constant diarrhea.
If we are to assume a gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, then a 100-ton giant will need approximately 91 kilograms (200 pounds) of protein per day. How many Chinese people will we need to eat in order to hit this vital macronutrient?
An average Chinese man is about 150 pounds, and contains sixty-seven pounds of skeletal muscle and 30 pounds of adipose tissue, which would supply our giant with 9500 grams of protein and about 13,000 grams of fat. This alone would supply our giant with 155,000 calories, but we must add in the nutrients found in the organs and bones (which only the most fastidious of giants would avoid), and we’re talking nearly 200,000 calories.
So ten or eleven good-sized Chinese men per day ought to do it. This will put daily caloric intake right at 2 million calories, which is equivalent to that of your average blue whale.
Many giants will opt to eat their Chinese people raw, which I would not recommend, on account of parasites and other food-borne pathogens. Roasting or baking are the preferred method of preparation, although some giants prefer to stir-fry their Chinese people in peanut oil and sesame seeds, adding a bit of soy-sauce and horseradish before serving.
I wanna be as big as Gilgamesh…That’s no house cat, that’s a Lion.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If we are to assume a gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, then a 100-ton giant will need approximately 91 kilograms (200 pounds) of protein per day. How many Chinese people will we need to eat in order to hit this vital macronutrient?
An average Chinese man is about 150 pounds, and contains sixty-seven pounds of skeletal muscle and 30 pounds of adipose tissue, which would supply our giant with 9500 grams of protein and about 13,000 grams of fat. This alone would supply our giant with 155,000 calories, but we must add in the nutrients found in the organs and bones (which only the most fastidious of giants would avoid), and we’re talking nearly 200,000 calories.
So ten or eleven good-sized Chinese men per day ought to do it. This will put daily caloric intake right at 2 million calories, which is equivalent to that of your average blue whale.
Many giants will opt to eat their Chinese people raw, which I would not recommend, on account of parasites and other food-borne pathogens. Roasting or baking are the preferred method of preparation, although some giants prefer to stir-fry their Chinese people in peanut oil and sesame seeds, adding a bit of soy-sauce and horseradish before serving.
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It’s funny you bring this aspect of it up, because after seeing the new Hobbit movie I had a discussion about how much a dragon the size of Smaug would consume, and how fast he would extinct nearby populations. Not only is he massive in size, but he moves at quite a good rate of speed, and flies, and breathes fire, which would all seem to be pretty metabolically costly activities. I guess that’s why he sleeps for countless years instead of doing anything.
[quote]sen say wrote:
Grizzlyberg and Csulli…how would you guys live…what would your day-to-day be like? I’m believing at 8 feet I would be able to live in society and continue my ‘normal’ life…I’d just be 8 feet tall and 600 lbs. WAY out of the norm, but still functional.[/quote]
I would live out in the wild. I could be valuable for aid in construction projects though. I’d probably do a lot of contract labor.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Can you imagine the daily caloric intake required just to maintain a body mass of one, ten, or (the mind boggles) a hundred tons? How many kilograms of protein per day? You would have to live in China or India and eat people all day long, because that’s the only protein source plentiful enough to sustain you. [/quote]
That was actually my plan. I figure maybe China would let me eat their criminals or all the daughters they don’t want or something.
Not to mention those Brood of Dragons surviving in the Earth from Reign Of Fire…'Great Dragon movie
and an unexpected acting turn from Rom Com dude to Bad Ass Grunt, Matthew McConaughey.
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Can you imagine the daily caloric intake required just to maintain a body mass of one, ten, or (the mind boggles) a hundred tons? How many kilograms of protein per day? You would have to live in China or India and eat people all day long, because that’s the only protein source plentiful enough to sustain you. [/quote]
That was actually my plan. I figure maybe China would let me eat their criminals or all the daughters they don’t want or something.[/quote]
Eat the criminals and the Communist Party bureaucrats (but I repeat myself).
As for the daughters, well…
I think Roybot is onto something.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If we are to assume a gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, then a 100-ton giant will need approximately 91 kilograms (200 pounds) of protein per day. How many Chinese people will we need to eat in order to hit this vital macronutrient?
An average Chinese man is about 150 pounds, and contains sixty-seven pounds of skeletal muscle and 30 pounds of adipose tissue, which would supply our giant with 9500 grams of protein and about 13,000 grams of fat. This alone would supply our giant with 155,000 calories, but we must add in the nutrients found in the organs and bones (which only the most fastidious of giants would avoid), and we’re talking nearly 200,000 calories.
So ten or eleven good-sized Chinese men per day ought to do it. This will put daily caloric intake right at 2 million calories, which is equivalent to that of your average blue whale.
Many giants will opt to eat their Chinese people raw, which I would not recommend, on account of parasites and other food-borne pathogens. Roasting or baking are the preferred method of preparation, although some giants prefer to stir-fry their Chinese people in peanut oil and sesame seeds, adding a bit of soy-sauce and horseradish before serving.
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Sound track while chewing? lol
