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  1. My fave part about What If? is that it gets such a simple question - what height would humans be if they kept growing through their whole development period - and two paragraphs it's using part of the Death Star as a comparison.

    Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:01:44 UTC from web
    1. @mastertdi Any points for the whole "your heart would explode" thing?

      Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:03:00 UTC from web
      1. @ceruleanspark Not yet but I'll keep you posted.

        Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:03:53 UTC from web
      2. @ceruleanspark "Actual humans wouldn't be able to grow to such heights. Thanks to the square-cube law, our bones would be too thin to support our weight and our hearts would be unable to pump blood around our bodies. Even breathing would be difficult; we might be able to position ourselves to keep our airways opened, but to breathe in a lungful of air would require very high airflow rates; we'd experience tornado winds all the way down our airways."

        Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:05:12 UTC from web
        1. @mastertdi that'd be pretty cool. Tornado winds in your airways sounds like fun

          Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:06:34 UTC from web
          1. @mylittlesistercantbethisincestual Fun on a bun

            Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:07:43 UTC from web
        2. @mastertdi Oh Enders Shadow.

          Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:06:53 UTC from web
          1. @ceruleanspark Isn't that one of those books by that guy that hates gay people

            Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:08:58 UTC from web
            1. @mastertdi Yes, but that doesn't have any bearing on the content of the books themselves

              Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:19:46 UTC from web
              1. @ceruleanspark Yeah I wasn't saying it was, I just thought I recognised the name

                Tuesday, 31-Dec-13 18:20:54 UTC from web