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Size means greater strength, so how big can one be before you stop counting them as human? Ultra tech should be able to make someone start growing again as if in puberty. Robert Wadlow was stickish and frail dying too young, but imagine an intentionally built man, healthy and robust, at 8'11". Heaviest man to ever live was obviously insanely obese, but make that 1000 pounds with low fat percentage to that height, and on paper he may qualify as human.
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Legally black people weren't considered human, so I think we can safely ignore that direction as 100% setting dependent.
Biologically is also arguable like pinning down species. Are dogs, wolves, and coyotes different species? How far you differ before you're no longer X animal is not something that can be objectively defined and agreed upon by all. That's why I'm asking OP and really other posters here too. Asking what the limits of human are is to also ask what humans are.
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A dwarf with gigantism and a giant with dwarfism. There's a buddy comedy waiting to be played.
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Only he is using extra effort and lifting skill (the BL two handed lift weights assumption in GURPS is no skill and being able to rep it every 4 seconds at will) Also more importantly your talking about dead lifts, the BL lifts in GURPS are overhead lifts Basic Lift is the maximum weight you can lift over your head with one hand in one second. It is equal to (STĄST)/5 lbs. If BL is 10 lbs. or more, round to the nearest whole number; e.g., 16.2 lbs. becomes 16 lbs. The average human has ST 10 and a BL of 20 lbs. Doubling the time lets you lift 2ĄBL overhead in one hand. Quadrupling the time, and using two hands, you can lift 8ĄBL overhead. pgg15 As you say the world record dead lift 1100lb is held by Eddie Hall (another WSM competitor), and here's a description of it what it felt like, certainly a case of extra effort I'd say! The world record for overhead (clean and jerk) is 580lb or just over half the dead lift record Quote:
But your using the wrong real world lift to calculate from (IIRC when this come up before I could get pretty close to a the world clean and jerk with ST14, a point or two of lift ST, a good lifting skill and high will for extra effort (so a pretty specialised build compared to most humans but not outlandishly so IMO) also unless you talking about heats Hafţór Björnsson hasn't won the WSM yet Quote:
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Being very tall is a disadvantage in others though, Dead lift, over head lifts, squats etc, etc. See Eddie Hall above who excels at these lifts and is relatively short. Most of the chaps who came out of power lifting tend to be on the shorter end of the scale (but again short is a relative term, FWIW I think your likely right in your sweet spot). Ultimately I think there are a lot of limiting factors at play in both directions both in terms of the external bio-mechanics of the events and the internal bio-mechanics of bodies. Last edited by Tomsdad; 09-13-2016 at 08:29 AM. |
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I would watch that.
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While not a buddy comedy, the Almighty Johnsons featured such a pair. Though the giant disguised himself as a vegetarian hippy.
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