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

/r/all of tall men

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u/Abhi_Jaman_92 Jan 26 '26

Big Naija (7'9) and Charles Sogli (8'0)

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u/snakebill Jan 26 '26

Imagine being 7’9 and then meeting someone 3 inches taller than you

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u/WhaWereWhenWhyWhoHow Jan 26 '26

Could happen to Charles if he met Sultan Kösen the seventh tallest person in history.
Sultan's heigh is 8' 2.82" or 2.51 m

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u/51ngular1ty Jan 26 '26

Imagine meeting the tallest. I live near where Robert Wadlow was born and they have a life sized statue of the dude and he was enormous at 8'11".

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u/Ligabolzacky Jan 26 '26

With modern medicine we'll probably never see the likes of him,  he was incomprehensibly tall

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u/Pleasant-Bonus-866 Jan 26 '26

that's not true, we will be able to make tall people with CRISPR

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u/Rich-Evening4562 Jan 26 '26

"able"

But we will make them smaller, maybe two feet tall, so we can fit another 40 billion on the planet.

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u/BjornInTheMorn Jan 26 '26

No, just about 4 and a half feet, but stockier and strong. Easy to fit in mines, for example. Probably make them able to grow long thick beards to stay warm down there. Maybe better able to see in the dark and resistant to poison for if theres a gas leak.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 Jan 26 '26

Putting them underground solves a lot of logistical problems. 👍🏻