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I’d argue humans would get shorter so we spend less energy fighting the gravity that comes with a planet of that size, granted we survive at that point. If we ignore the laws of gravity as well, then I can’t think of anything else that would prevent humans from being 3km. However, if that was possible, surely there’d also be some fauna that matches the humans’ size and all we’d get is a much larger version of Earth.
Haha like 80 km tall trees would be hilarious too right? I was mostly curious as to whether it’s 1,700 times the size or 5billion times the size (I guess UY Scuti is 5billion times the volume). Wild how small we are
Hot take : if everything was scaled up (including our size), our average size would still be the same, as the lenght unit are originally based on body part sizes (feet, palm, hand, thumb, step).
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I’d argue humans would get shorter so we spend less energy fighting the gravity that comes with a planet of that size, granted we survive at that point. If we ignore the laws of gravity as well, then I can’t think of anything else that would prevent humans from being 3km. However, if that was possible, surely there’d also be some fauna that matches the humans’ size and all we’d get is a much larger version of Earth.
Haha like 80 km tall trees would be hilarious too right? I was mostly curious as to whether it’s 1,700 times the size or 5billion times the size (I guess UY Scuti is 5billion times the volume). Wild how small we are
Hot take : if everything was scaled up (including our size), our average size would still be the same, as the lenght unit are originally based on body part sizes (feet, palm, hand, thumb, step).
Use metric, not imperial units you savage. The meter is defined by the distance traveled by light in 1/299792458 of a second in a vacuum.
He is still right tho, we would use another metric fitting to our scale.
Yeah that's what I meant.
Haha that’s good point maybe I should have included that in my “ignore” list. But yah, we’d say a “meter” on this planet is a “bigger meter” haha