How Big Can a Person Get?

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Published 2013-04-15
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Veritasium video on single photons and frog eyes:    • What Can Frogs See That We Can't?  

British Pathe Robert Wadlow video:    • The World's Tallest Man: Robert Wadlo...  

Earth Unplugged channel: youtube.com/user/EarthUnpluggedTV

AsapScience Moon Illusion video:    • The Moon Illusion  

interactive DNA model: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/builddna…

Igor Vovkovinsky: www.thetallestman.com/igorvovkovinskiy.htm

Sultan Kösen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_K%C3%B6sen

Robert Wadlow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow

André the Giant:

twentytwowords.com/2012/01/26/andre-the-giant-hold…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant

tallest woman: www.thetallestman.com/zengjinlian.htm

human height:

io9.com/5789332/in-search-of-the-worlds-tallest-hu…
erinjenne.blogspot.co.uk/2011_02_01_archive.html
webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lL-v…

Genetic manipulation of height: www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/11/108162183649…

Square-cube law: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law

Largest dinosaurs: www.walkingwithdinosaurs.com/news/editorial/bigges…

Giraffatitan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffatitan

Bruhathkayosaurus:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruhathkayosaurus
smart-pustaka.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/bruhathkayosa…

Blue Whale:

Mars and Earth comparrison: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Mars_E…

Mars-born people being taller: www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1160-would-humans-bor…

biology of body size and shape:

dinosaurtheory.com/scaling.html
fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/
galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/s…
supersonicman.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/the-square-…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allometry

Guy Murche book: www.amazon.com/The-Seven-Mysteries-Life-Murchie/dp…

Sound calculator: www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-distancelaw.htm

How far away is the horizon?

mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/atmos_refr/horizon.htm…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:How_far_away_is_the_hor…
www.howitworksdaily.com/environment/what-is-the-ma…

Angular size:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter
burro.astr.cwru.edu/Academics/Astr221/Light/parall…

Anuglar size calculator: planetcalc.com/1897/

Smallest angular size naked eye can see: adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994JBAA..104...86W

Animal olfaction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfaction#Olfaction_in_plant…

Human body radiation emission: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation#Human_b…

Humans emitting light in visible spectrum: www.livescience.com/7799-strange-humans-glow-visib…

Final .gif: i.imgur.com/X8M5X.gif