Cyn wrote:Lord Skimper wrote:If one is 3-4 times as old and one starts Prolong at an age when one is still growing. How tall would one be? If we start prolong at 14 and grow till be are 19 then multiply the growing years from 14 to 19 by 3 or 4 would one grow to 8, 9, 12 feet tall?
I remember hearing something (can't remember where) that if people did grow this tall, and assuming that their rest of their dimensions grew accordingly, their internal body heat would get high enough to cook their insides, and if their other dimensions didn't grow accordingly I shudder to think of the implications on body mechanics, imagine trying to lift your arm if it was twice as long and your muscles were the same size, that would be a very quick lesson in leverage. Elephants and whales can be that large because of wrinkly skin increasing their surface area and frequent showers (for an elephant) and being submerged in usually freezing water (for whales). So if surviving prolong and have youth for centuries meant either looking very old of constantly living in ice water I'm not sure anyone would go for it.
An elephant's ears are their heat radiators. Whales have very good insulation; that cold water is way too much of a good thing as far as getting rid of excess heat.
The problem with size is that walking, for a biped, is controlled falling, and that means that the length of the legs needs to be commensurate with the gravity field so it can use a pendulum effect to save energy. The higher your center of gravity, the faster you're going to need to react.
There's no way of armwaving that aspect of biomechanics away. Same with heat dissipation. Thandi Palaine probably needs to carry an air chiller.
