Submitted 12 hours ago by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
ok I’m high for this one
so like you know a tall person isnt wider when they get taller? like when we were growing up our hipbones are bigger than like a 5 year old?
then when our spines are stopped growing why didn’t the hipbones not growing?
oh I am reading this and I’m definitely higher than I thought i would get from the edible lmao
From a biology perspective, it may not be totally advantageous to grow in all three dimensions at once. Certainly, as life forms become larger, they also require more energy to sustain, and also become harder to cool (at least for the warm blooded ones). Generally speaking, keeping cool is a matter of surface area (aka skin). But growing double in each of the three dimensions would be 4x more skin than before, but would be 8x more mass/muscle. That’s now harder to keep cool.
So growing needs to be done with intention: growing taller nets some survival benefits, such as having longer legs to run. Whereas growing wider or deeper doesn’t do very much.
But idk mang, I’m in a food coma from holiday dinner, just shooting from the hip lol
The square cube law or whatever
I prefer round cubes…
shooting from the hip
they's gone wide 🚨🚨
All humans should evolve into spheres.
America is working on it with support from mcdonalds.
Sometimes they are
Tall means higher caloric needs, which means its easier for a tall guy to also be skinny
Damn, that missed me. Now I gotta contend with the fact that my Jack Black gut lands me in the near 400 range.
It just means you ate more to get that gut than the average person, and having a gut isnt necessarily a bad thing. You good.
Because wide people rarely are tall.
There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.
I dunno, I’m 6’4 and broad shouldered. I’ve let myself go a bit and am getting chunky but people still act like I’m an NFL linebacker or something. It’s weird and uncomfortable when people are openly talking about your physical traits, even if they feel like it’s a positive thing.
They are sometimes? It’s just gene and expressions. You can be short and wide just like you can be tall and wide, it be either and be slender
I’m fairly tall, 6’2" I quite often meet people much taller than me, that I don’t realise are really that tall, because they are more in proportion. So maybe it’s a perception problem, that you only notice tall skinny folks and overlook the tall average proportion folk.
This is definitely it. I am tall (1.94 m) and in proportion, and my equally tall friend who is skinny gets all the tall-person jokes when we go somewhere together.
Hmm, I’m pretty tall and high, and I think my hipbones grew like… normal? I don’t know.
Ok, so…tall person here - as I grew into my 6’4" frame I got progressively wider as well. In my later days (kinda old now) my width has increased unproprtionally to my stagnated growth in height. Damn! You just fat shamed me without meaning to! Uncool, dude!!
Same
My sister and I are both tall and skinny, but also broader than shorter women. Like, my sisters ribs are all visible from every side and she wears a size 6 pants. I know short women who aren’t nearly as skinny for whom size six pants are too big.
Imagine how different our doors would be if we were two feet tall and six feet wide. Try not to imagine the twerking.
What a day to have a functioning phantasia
Imagine we would grow like expanding an image of a baby with locked ratios
That, wouldn’t be practical, I guess
Isn’t the same question why wide people aren’t also taller?
I mean right now I think I’m at least 33% pie so…
1.03672557568?
I knew a guy who was easily a foot taller than me, and I’m not short at all, he was quite robust. Almost as wide as I am tall.
That’s just weight size though, you mean something else. Andre the Giant is an example of that, but he was like that because of a disorder and it’s what did him in in the end. So you answer is it happens but it’s not conducive to longevity.
I mean if you lay them on their side…
9point6@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
I am both
I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy