12-04-2018, 11:07 PM | #1 |
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Altered height elective surgery, Biotech
If a character undergoes elective surgery for "altered height" modifying its spine and long bones of its arms/legs (GURPS BIOTECH/Bodysculpting) to lower its height from 6'8" to 6'2", would it look the same (same appearance), just as miniaturized version of itself?
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12-04-2018, 11:19 PM | #2 | |
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12-04-2018, 11:47 PM | #3 | |
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12-05-2018, 12:35 AM | #4 | |
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12-05-2018, 08:11 AM | #5 | |
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There is one treatment for increasing bone density but it only adds one HP and allows for more Muscle Grafting and.or Muscle Reinforcement. It certainly doesn't make you thinner.
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12-05-2018, 08:46 AM | #6 |
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Re: Altered height elective surgery, Biotech
The bone and muscle densities are not the problem. The problem is that if you shorten Shaquille O'Neal's bones, he still has enormous lungs, intestines, liver, and heart. And I suppose the rib-cage bones are going to be tricky, but that's because of those giant lungs.
You can get some effect with weight loss surgery. You might be able to shorten intestines and trim the liver. You can probably even do a bunch of transplants, but at some point you're doing a head transplant instead of altering their body. And that brings us to the head. Shaq does not have average sized head, and heads are very very hard to shrink, because brains tend to fit snugly inside of them.
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12-05-2018, 08:51 AM | #7 |
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Even growing Shaq a genetically modified 5'8" clone body for him to do a mind upload into won't result in a mini-Shaq in the sense of taking a photo of Shaq into photoshop and making it smaller. They would look like Shaq's shorter brother.
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12-05-2018, 10:47 AM | #8 | |
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It rather looks to me as if you're making one set of assumptions, and asking about the results, and then you're making a different set of assumptions, and applying THAT set of results on top of the first one—but the two sets of assumptions are different and may not be compatible. That doesn't produce meaningful results.
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12-05-2018, 11:23 AM | #9 |
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Re: Altered height elective surgery, Biotech
At sufficiently high TL presumably you can do whatever you want, but it's not going to just be surgery at that point.
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12-05-2018, 11:38 AM | #10 |
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I knew a guy who lost a couple of inches from both legs due to a car accident. Unless you knew him before and noticed the change in height or saw the scars, you would never know the difference.
More extreme than that, and the proportions between the bits that were resized and those that weren't would start to be more obviously different.
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