Scientists discover race of giant skeletons

[Ryoki]

Wow ey!

[Fender]

along w/ genies, leprechauns, etc...

[Ryoki]

Don't you besmirch this scientific breakthrought with your fantastical connotations

[MaCaBr3]

You disapoint me Ryoki...this is old as jebus


http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/giantman.asp

[Ryoki]

Lol aye, i found it on the national geographic website while looking for something else. They had a lengthy disclaimer saying their scientists never dug up anything like it, even though some Indian newspaper recently claimed otherwise... thought the photo was pretty funny

[seremtan]

nice shoop

[Wabbit]

I read that it was impossible to have 50-foot tall humans with our current physiology because our leg bones would break with each step.

Let us take the most obvious of possible cases, and consider a giant man sixty feet high — [...] These monsters were not only ten times as high as Christian, but ten times as wide and ten times as thick, so that their total weight was a thousand times his, or about eighty to ninety tons. Unfortunately the cross sections of their bones were only a hundred times those of Christian, so that every square inch of giant bone had to support ten times the weight borne by a square inch of human bone. As the human thigh-bone breaks under about ten times the human weight, Pope and Pagan would have broken their thighs every time they took a step.

You need to scroll down to Gulliver's physics for the relevant info: Physics and Size in Biological Systems

[SoM]

looks like theyre filming another aliens movie