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Post by gladewalker on May 18, 2009 22:41:15 GMT -5
It's not easy bein' a giant in today's world.
Let’s use a 10:1 scale for simplicity.
Housing:
Ok so that apartment in Manhattan is out. Not unless there’s a 10-story ballroom handy. And taking the Subway? Not an option. Sidewalks… nope. Just no easy way to get around Manhattan when your feet are the size of taxicabs. And the rent? Fuhgeddaboutit!
Food:
Given that it’d be a volume increase, that’s about 1,000 times the normal human intake. So, imagine your food bill up 1,000 times. That’s a yearly wage for just ONE day of food. So, unless you’re making about $10 million a year (or stealing from people or living on the government), there’s starvation in your future.
Water:
Okay so showers are out unless you use Niagara Falls… but even drinking water would be thousands of gallons a day. Basically a 2 or 3-thousand gallon tanker truck of spring water should do.
Clothes:
Not sure where economy of scale comes in, but if there’s a race of giants let’s assume a clothing manufacturer for them. We’ll just scale up costs as well by 1,000 times.
Overall:
A nice round figure is that as a 50’ giant or so, the average person will need about 1,000 times the income to survive. (That’s a million for every thousand in income.) So, the average Giant-American would need around $40 million a year to live comfortably.
Oh for the days of simplicity when you could just ransack a village, make off with some livestock or simply demand tribute from the locals (as well as the annual young maiden sacrifice)....
Times sure have changed!
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Post by giantblackcat on May 18, 2009 22:58:17 GMT -5
O.O!! 40 million a year!! Wow!
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Post by Fang on May 18, 2009 23:13:03 GMT -5
 holy crap...I don't think I've ever thought about that....at least, not to that extent... |
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Post by Ronnie on May 19, 2009 14:31:51 GMT -5
I can think of many other problems...LOL XD
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Post by giantblackcat on May 19, 2009 15:12:31 GMT -5
Me too! XDXDXDDD
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Post by Ronnie on May 19, 2009 16:37:52 GMT -5
Seriously...what if they had to go to the bathroom? @__@
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Post by giantblackcat on May 19, 2009 16:45:56 GMT -5
O.O!!
I don't imagine... I DON'T IMAGINE!!
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Late...
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Post by natalie on May 19, 2009 17:03:27 GMT -5
WOW, I don't think I have either!!
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Post by Ronnie on May 19, 2009 17:27:13 GMT -5
O.O!! I don't imagine... I DON'T IMAGINE!! ... Late... XDDDDDD |
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Post by giantblackcat on May 19, 2009 17:47:06 GMT -5
TT^TT!!
Oh, well...
They can build a giant bathroom ·w·!
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Post by jaco on May 19, 2009 17:55:05 GMT -5
that's why I stick to the shrinking side of things  One of the interesting sites I found..... www.wonderquest.com/bug-breath.htmto Quote the last paragraph from that site.... ""In fact," says Meyer, "the rate of gas diffusion is regarded as one of the main limiting factors (along with weight of the exoskeleton) that prevents real insects from growing as large as the ones we see in horror movies!" " Now the cool thing is that insects were larger during the prehistoric age. Why? Because the planet had a richer Oxygen content then it does now. I basically looked at these dynamics of nature to apply to the Human body as well. In shrinking or growing mass would exponentially increase or decrease. So imagine the strain on your organs like your heart if you were 50+ ft tall with a body mass far greater then your normal height. Ants can lift objects as great as 5 to 10 times their body weight, and can move objects upwards of 25 times their body weight by pulling them. Yet if an ant was enlarged, the drastic increase of mass of the ant's exoskeleton would immobilize the ant at best, crush it at worst, and that is beside the breathing problem the ant would now have, not being able to take in enough air. But in shrinking, a small human would breath just fine, would also be perhaps a bit healthier since the heart and other organs now work easier, with less strain on them. And for their size they would become stronger. Still not able to fight off a normal human just like bugs cant fight us off at least not through strength. (I hate stings) Now does any of this pertain to Giants? Well, not really, since a TRUE Giant's body would be, by nature, capable of dealing with all the issues. But ya still got's to deal with the um.... mess,,,, And the pilfering of cattle and such. Or they could simply rob banks at night to get all that money they need now  |
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Post by gladewalker on May 19, 2009 18:03:09 GMT -5
Seriously...what if they had to go to the bathroom? @__@ New Jersey =-) |
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Post by jaco on May 19, 2009 18:06:31 GMT -5
LOL!!! Another site I found worth sharing, since it actually discusses the possibilities of what would happen if Ants or other bugs were enlarged and Humans being made smaller...... www.ftexploring.com/think/superbugs_p2.htmlThe strength factor comes from Muscles and how they work and react . Quote: " Well, his weight is simply increasing faster than his muscle strength is growing. Bio-physicists have told me in various papers and books, that muscle strength changes approximately with the change in muscle cross-sectional area. So that's all that has happened to our cube creature. The cross-sectional areas have increased by a factor of four, while the weight increased by a factor of eight. So even though a big guy can be much stronger than a little guy, if he is growing proportionately, his strength can't increase as fast as his weight is increasing." |
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Post by jaco on May 19, 2009 20:02:32 GMT -5
LOL I just had another thought on this. If you took a Giant, a person born to be a giant, and shrank him to our size, by the laws of physics put forth in the sites I visited, that giant's strength would be superhuman compared to us!
Just a thought!
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Post by gladewalker on May 21, 2009 20:21:53 GMT -5
Cool site!
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Post by jaco on May 21, 2009 20:29:22 GMT -5
Thanks Glade! One of the things I thought interesting is that if a human were shrunk to the size of an ant, that human would be far stronger then the ant!!!
" Pretend you are 6 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds. You're a pretty strong guy or girl and can push 100 pounds worth of barbell and weights over your head. Not exactly olympic material, but not bad. That's one half your body weight.
Seems pretty pathetic next to our leafcutter ant that can lift and carry 50 times its weight (though I have never actually verified this. Have you?).
(Remember we are over simplifying)
But what happens if we shrink you?
We zap you with the "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" ray and you shrink all the way down to about 6 mm or 1/4 of an inch.
According to my estimation using the relationships described above, you now weigh 3.2 milligrams. Based on the change in cross-sectional area of your muscles you can now lift 488 milligrams.
That's almost 153 times your weight!
Now you are 3 times stronger than the whimpy ant!"
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Post by giantblackcat on May 21, 2009 20:44:43 GMT -5
You're soo good in maths! @.@!!
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Post by jaco on May 21, 2009 21:06:31 GMT -5
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Post by giantblackcat on May 21, 2009 21:24:37 GMT -5
Oh, well...
This guy it's too goot in maths! XDXDXDXDXDD
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Post by evie on Jul 9, 2009 14:18:17 GMT -5
Wow, cool!! |
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holy crap...I don't think I've ever thought about that....at least, not to that extent...
