Say there is a normal human being in every way but he is 30 foot tall.
What kind of times would he run for the 100m - marathon?
Say there is a normal human being in every way but he is 30 foot tall.
What kind of times would he run for the 100m - marathon?
he wouldn't.
He would stomp you like a grape and you would never live to know his marathon time, so don't ask.
Kind of hard to answer - if he was the same proportions as a normal man he wouldn't even be able to stand upright. Thus, pretty slow. If he had a different body type he may run fast but it all depends on WHAT body type, which is why it's hard to answer.
leprend wrote:
Kind of hard to answer - if he was the same proportions as a normal man he wouldn't even be able to stand upright. Thus, pretty slow. If he had a different body type he may run fast but it all depends on WHAT body type, which is why it's hard to answer.
Imagine a normal 6 foot guy, every thing is stretched to 5x its normal length, width or depth and remains the same density.
Would he be a lot quicker than if he wasn't stretched?
Who's this guys clothing provider? The track events may be do-able but the marathon could be tougher. Think power wires.
Robert Wadlow died in 1940 at the age of 22. He was measured at 8'11.5" at autopsy. He died of an infection that he most likely got from a poorly fitted leg brace that cut into his ankle. At the time of his death he was still growing at 6"/year. Thus, if he had lived to around 64 would have been 30 feet tall. It is a shame that he had to die so early, or we would have been able to actually see a 30' tall guy!
I predict he could beat a Grizzly Bear in the 800m.
At the time of his death he was still growing at 6"/year
Was his growth accelerating? Because if he was growing at least 6'/yr his whole life he'd have been 11' at 22 y/o.
tyykiyloudkl wrote:
Imagine a normal 6 foot guy, every thing is stretched to 5x its normal length, width or depth and remains the same density.
Would he be a lot quicker than if he wasn't stretched?
Nope - he won't even be able to stand up. The math behind it is that the amount of weight your legs can support is proportional to length (height) SQUARED, whereas your actual weight is proportional to height CUBED. So when you multiply his dimensions by 5, you multiply his "strength" by 25 but his weight by 125. This is the same reason ants can lift up 6+ times their weight, and the reason large bridges are a lot harder to design than small ones - if you took the Brooklyn Bridge and doubled its height, width, depth by 2, it would easily collapse under its own weight. Even people who grow to 8'+ sometimes need braces to help them walk - the tallest guy in history died at like 29 with smoe complications (he was just short of 9', and still growing).