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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3395615" data-attributes="member: 3649">Actually, they usually do. Abnormally tall people have a whole host of physical problems from their affliction - and it really is an affliction. They tend to die young (the tallest man on record, 8'11.1&quot;, died before he was 25), have bone and joint problems, etc but that's usually because they do not grow proportionally - they grow that tall from chemical imbalances or genetic disorders, not anything natural.Some science fiction novels have postulated what might have to happen for giant human-proportioned creatures to exist. Usually it requires a different bone structure than we happened to come up with, bones that not only are composed differently, but constructed differently as well. I seem to remember one book where their blood was much more acidic to be a more efficient oxygen transporter. The heart and blood vessels also have to have some significant modifications to push liquids up that far in the time needed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3395615, member: 3649"] Actually, they usually do. Abnormally tall people have a whole host of physical problems from their affliction - and it really is an affliction. They tend to die young (the tallest man on record, 8'11.1", died before he was 25), have bone and joint problems, etc but that's usually because they do not grow proportionally - they grow that tall from chemical imbalances or genetic disorders, not anything natural. Some science fiction novels have postulated what might have to happen for giant human-proportioned creatures to exist. Usually it requires a different bone structure than we happened to come up with, bones that not only are composed differently, but constructed differently as well. I seem to remember one book where their blood was much more acidic to be a more efficient oxygen transporter. The heart and blood vessels also have to have some significant modifications to push liquids up that far in the time needed. [/QUOTE]

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