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[–]GConly 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

So, that's a "footprint" in granite, an igneous rock.

This stuff is used as a footing for skyscrapers, a "giant" stepping on granite would have either left no imprint, or shattered it. Or it happened when it was semi molten, and we had a roasted giant foot somewhere.

This is pretty obviously a foot-like shaped natural depression that someone has added carved toes to.

I'd like to add, there's a physical reason to why bipedal giants with a truly massive body size can't exist. The mechanics of the foot and bone strength in the legs just don't allow for it. As it is normal human giants over 7ft have massive issues with their feet and find up walking with a cane, or in a wheelchair fairly quickly because their feet can't take the strain.

If you get to twice normal height, you have about four times normal weight, so the loading on lower limbs us effectively twice what it is in a normal human. Even a normal step would break the bone.

You could go somewhat bigger than human, but only by seriously reinforcing the thickness of the lower limb bones and having flat 'stomping' feet like an elephant. Think of the giants in game of thrones for a design, but even then you couldn't get anywhere near that big.

EDIT: I'd also like to point out for that rock to have a footprint in it, it would need to by lying flat. If it ever was lying flat, it would have to have been a few million years ago.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

I personally think giants had too difficult of a time surviving here with our gravity and their biology, which is why they chose a group of humans to try and mate with. It never worked.

Read some of the folklores and myths. Giant people are often described as being lumpy, ogreish, hunchbacked, and so on. It fits what you are saying, rather than being debunked. Edit: I should say that your comment does make a good point in this specific case.

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    [–]iDontShift 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

    keep in mind that like my Grandpa was 5 foot nothin' ..

    grandma.. under 5 foot.

    what is a giant depends on your current size.

    so they wouldn't hafta go away if we all got that tall

    [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

    Are you trying to argue that our ancestors were all so short that a regular tall human would seem like a giant? Have you even read the myths or folklores? It is very clear, at least from those accounts, that these weren't regular humans they were talking about. They were talking about giant people, so big that they seemed to be in pain.

    [–]GConly 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

    Yep. That's exactly what these legend are talking about.

    Someone 6 ft 3 is going to seem like a giant to anyone from an ethnic group where the average male height is 5 ft 6.

    Add in a little exaggeration with each telling, and you've got people tall as trees.

    [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

    You are hilarious, and you obviously haven't read or heard any of these tales. I have no interest speaking with someone who believes that every myth is exaggeration, or that every fairy-tale is a lie. You bring nothing to the table, sir. I am 5'7 and I was friends with a kid who's dad played professional basketball. THOSE FUCKERS WERE BIG, but I would never ever refer to them as "giants" and his father was the tallest person to ever play for the Pacers. Have you ever stood next to somebody who was three feet taller than you? Have you ever seen them stand next to some thing three feet taller than them? There are clear and definable differences in height, and I seriously laugh at your foolish notion that the old tribes just exaggerated every time they told their tales.

    [–]GConly 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    THOSE FUCKERS WERE BIG, but I would never ever refer to them as "giants"

    And you tell it to your grandkids who've never seen someone that tall, saying "those guys were huge" and they tell their kids, and it gets distorted. Someone writes it down in a few thousand years and huge becomes giant, or the meaning of the word changes. That happens more than you'd think.

    For example in the Bible the word used to describe the Nephilim is translated as "giant" in some versions, but "great men" is closer to the text. People misunderstood and it got morphed into "giant" in some translations.

    someone who believes that every myth is exaggeration, or that every fairy-tale is a lie.

    Most are. I've tracked the evolution of different religious myths and gods, it's very educational when it comes to how stories get changed over thousands of years.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    You have a modern view on humanity, and it's pretty bland and unappealing. Logic dictates this and that, and when evidence first comes to you, your mighty logic already has things to say about it. You are arguing a point of view that retarded Christian monks argued with the "pagans" two thousands years ago in Scotland and Ireland, and quite recently in the Americas. Do you realize that you are shilling for imperialists?

    [–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    So you'd rather just have stuff you've made up given equal weight?

    LOL.

    [–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    Malcolm Gladwell wrote an insightful piece on David and Goliath worth checking out.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    I'll look into it. Thank you.

    [–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    IIRC, it may be covered in a YouTube video or few.