The Tall Ones Part 2

Astonishing Legends vor 8 Jahren

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What constitutes a "giant" in your mind? Certainly, people who
are 6 to 7 feet tall are commonplace nowadays, unlike the Middle
Ages, or even a hundred years ago. But what about someone who's
seven feet tall or more? We may call them "giants" in jest, but
it's not the same as when we think of the giants in our legends.
A measurement of more than seven feet is rare, but there are
plenty of healthy people living today in that range that prove
it's not so legendary by our contemporary imagination. Rarer
still is a human that's eight feet tall, but there has been one
in recent history: Robert Pershing Wadlow stood 8' 11.1" tall
(2.72 m) and weighed 490 pounds (220 kg) and showed no signs of
stopping his growth at his untimely death in 1940 at age 22. So
it's possible that a height for a human can approach nine feet,
but could any height beyond that be sustainable? Because taller
than that and it seems we venture beyond not only what is
biologically viable for the human body, but also what is
believable. It still leaves us with the question, "What makes a
giant?" And if a skeleton is unearthed that appears to have
horns? Well, that is another matter altogether.

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