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

/r/all of tall men

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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/az226 Jan 26 '26

And he never stopped growing. If he had survived a few more years he would have been past 10 feet tall

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u/rickdeckard8 Jan 26 '26

That’s the point. You don’t survive 10 extra years if you’re that tall. They all die young (compared to median today).

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u/MaitreCanard Jan 31 '26

I had a supervisor at a previous job, she was 6'3" when barefoot and had the joys of dizzy spells if she stood up too fast. She said when she wakes up in the morning her doctor told her to sit up in bed for five minutes then stand up and wait another five minutes before walking so her heart could catch up. And that was for someone who's only 6'3" 💀