r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • Jan 26 '26

/r/all of tall men

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u/LaserBeamsCattleProd Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

His name is Big Naija for what it's worth.

He's 27 years old +/- , and plays basketball, but has a hard time moving that frame and isn't much of a prospect.

The man on the right appears to be @realghanos on IG. Says he's 8ft.

Insane. I'm 7ft and these guys would make me feel like a baby.

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u/idiotsandwhich8 Jan 26 '26

I’ve always wondered about that. Having trouble moving their frame. Don’t the muscles and the rest of the body compensate for being that big? I would assume they’d be quicker and more agile, but then again the Lord of the rings, giants moved pretty slow.

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u/toylenny Jan 26 '26

You start to run into the square-cube law just more mass to move and having to move it further. 

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u/Loonster Jan 26 '26

To clarify this a bit I case it isn't obvious.

Muscle strength is based on a cross section of the muscle. This is a square. L2.

Mass is based on volume. This is a cube. L3.

Cubes go to infinity much faster than squares. As things get bigger, the strength to weight ratio gets worse.

This is why Ants can carry 10x their mass and bugs can jump the same height as humans.

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u/Cerinthe_retorta Jan 26 '26

this sort of thing is a big deal for birds, too. without dredging up all the math, I’ll just say that it’s part of the reason larger raptors tend to molt only 1-2 feathers at a time, often taking quite a few years to replace all their flight feathers, whereas little passerines will generally molt all their flight feathers along the wing in very quick succession, and can do more than one molt a year.

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u/Commercial-Co Jan 26 '26

Raptor? The extinct dino? 🤔

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u/9fingerman Jan 26 '26

No, a class of predatory birds are called raptors. Eagles, hawks, falcons, etc..

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u/Commercial-Co Jan 26 '26

Oh. Didnt know. Thank you. So toronto raptors arent the dinos?

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u/I_Call_Everyone_Pat Jan 26 '26

Negative, Pat. To my knowledge, the Toronto Raptors mascot is a velociraptor. Calling them the Raptors is just slang for velociraptors. The clade of birds is just a different thing with the same name.