A T-Rex tipped the scales at "only" about 16,000 pounds (a little less actually).


A strongly built human with a 5 foot shoe size?


~43,200.


As I said. Unpossible.


Edit: Had to drop it down from 48,800 - I decided that an average male weight for a prehistoric humanoid, stronger and more heavily built than we are now, would be closer to 200 pounds than 225.

 

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So the only things that exist are what you personally know, have seen or are told by your talking heads.

/got it, chief

 

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The Biblical stories are probably the same as the Paul Bunyan legend.

"There is this one guy, 6'6", who's really good at killing Israelites / cutting down trees"

... three generations later...

"He was 20' tall if he was an inch, yessir, and a boot the size of yer chest, true as day. Why, my paps saw him with his own two eyes and told me the legend on his death bed. Stranger, let me tell you the tale..."

 

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You mean I do not dream up things that simply are not real? I happen to believe in proper peer reviewed science.. Now I know this is a bit hard for you to wrap your uneducated redneck mind around but that is what the civilized humans base their reality on; facts.. Things we can prove.

This is why I hold nothing but contempt for uneducated people, now now I'm not saying that you have to have a degree but some level of didactic prowess is called for.

 

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I shore is sorry I cain't live up to yer fancy book-lurnun, but y'all haf to unnertant that in these here parts edukashun is a thing for the high falootin' city folk. I don't know about no pear eatin' science men, neethur. What kind of froot some yokel eats don't seem to have no matter on what sort of brane he done gots as far as I kin tell. Could you please shower me wit some of ur fancy lurnin and show me how u know there ain't none of them there big fellers bones lyin' around in the dirt?

Thankee kindly!

 

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It's my understanding that a lot of mythology concerning giants arose because people of the Mediterranean and regions of Asia used to be considerable shorter than they are now. When they encountered civilizations whose people were 6' or more, they considered them giants. That's being completely pulled out of my ass, though.

 

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What's a giant?

 

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My point is only that education is just a portion of knowledge and NOT the answer key. The problem that many "educated" folks seem to have is that they cannot think for themselves or critically apply thought outside of the "accepted theory" of (insert topic).

I have a generalized disdain for the modern education system. While I can appreciate the things it offers to people I am never surprised to see someone with a degree or five who is just about one step from a complete dumb ass.

I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of things that were ruled "impossible" by educated people over the course of human history that were later found to not only be possible, but prevalent.

Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go screw my sister or something similar so I can live down to the neanderthalic expectation of the properly "educated".

 

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This is horrible logic, but since I'm already pulling stuff out of my ass, I'll throw it out there.

I've worked with several paleontologists. Some were even fairly renowned in their particular field of study. I'm pretty sure that there were any evidence of a giant out there, you'd be reading about it in scientific magazines and journals rather than sites like those listed. Paleontologists aren't exactly passive about their field of study.

 

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Don't need to there is such a word as autodidact, means self-taught.. You've often expressed views that seem more then befuddled by the scientific process, I suggest you start to educate yourself beyond loch-ness theories.





Intellect and education is not the same thing, having a shitload of knowledge is always nice.. Now applying that knowledge properly is something different or their area of expertise is just that.. Some people are just specialized, thing about having a degree is not the same as being educated which I stipulated earlier.

Yes some things have been considered impossible, does not however give anyone the right to think up something improbable without any god damn proof and just sprouting it as fact just because of shitty logical reasoning and shoddy work, that is not the way sience works.

and if there were giants and they had been found they would be right up there with t-rex etc, the scientific community does not suppress knowledge and scientists who find things does not just sit on it they reap it.

It's lovely how much offense you took at my redneck quip.

 

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