ok I’m high for this one

so like you know a tall person isnt wider when they get taller? like when we were growing up our hipbones are bigger than like a 5 year old?

then when our spines are stopped growing why didn’t the hipbones not growing?

oh I am reading this and I’m definitely higher than I thought i would get from the edible lmao

  • fodor@lemmy.zip
    1·
    37 minutes ago

    There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    1·
    46 minutes ago

    I dunno, I’m 6’4 and broad shouldered. I’ve let myself go a bit and am getting chunky but people still act like I’m an NFL linebacker or something. It’s weird and uncomfortable when people are openly talking about your physical traits, even if they feel like it’s a positive thing.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    My sister and I are both tall and skinny, but also broader than shorter women. Like, my sisters ribs are all visible from every side and she wears a size 6 pants. I know short women who aren’t nearly as skinny for whom size six pants are too big.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    They are sometimes? It’s just gene and expressions. You can be short and wide just like you can be tall and wide, it be either and be slender

    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I’m fairly tall, 6’2" I quite often meet people much taller than me, that I don’t realise are really that tall, because they are more in proportion. So maybe it’s a perception problem, that you only notice tall skinny folks and overlook the tall average proportion folk.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    43·
    7 hours ago

    From a biology perspective, it may not be totally advantageous to grow in all three dimensions at once. Certainly, as life forms become larger, they also require more energy to sustain, and also become harder to cool (at least for the warm blooded ones). Generally speaking, keeping cool is a matter of surface area (aka skin). But growing double in each of the three dimensions would be 4x more skin than before, but would be 8x more mass/muscle. That’s now harder to keep cool.

    So growing needs to be done with intention: growing taller nets some survival benefits, such as having longer legs to run. Whereas growing wider or deeper doesn’t do very much.

    But idk mang, I’m in a food coma from holiday dinner, just shooting from the hip lol

  • rouxdoo@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 hours ago

    Ok, so…tall person here - as I grew into my 6’4" frame I got progressively wider as well. In my later days (kinda old now) my width has increased unproprtionally to my stagnated growth in height. Damn! You just fat shamed me without meaning to! Uncool, dude!!

  • Sarcasmo@piefed.socialEnglish
    111·
    6 hours ago

    Imagine how different our doors would be if we were two feet tall and six feet wide. Try not to imagine twerking.

  • sandwich@piefed.socialEnglish
    131·
    7 hours ago

    Hmm, I’m pretty tall and high, and I think my hipbones grew like… normal? I don’t know.

    Edit: enjoy the ride, space cadet! 💨

  • db2@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    I knew a guy who was easily a foot taller than me, and I’m not short at all, he was quite robust. Almost as wide as I am tall.

    That’s just weight size though, you mean something else. Andre the Giant is an example of that, but he was like that because of a disorder and it’s what did him in in the end. So you answer is it happens but it’s not conducive to longevity.