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  1. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    That sounds like a remake of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960).
  2. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    Well, some plants like the Venus Flytrap are carnivorous. There also over 150 species of carnivorous Sea Sponge.
  3. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    With old sea stories the size of what they encountered was probably exaggerated to make the story more impressive ... but sometimes isn't: https://thefutureofthings.com/3698-the-wave-that-changed-science/ December 1942: RMS Queen Mary got hit by a rogue wave and listed 52 degrees. RMS Queen...
  4. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    You might be thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid The females actually do get up to about 40+ft.
  5. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    One of my sisters has. 5'10" barefoot is probably accurate to within a half-inch. She could - and did - shoot over him in a "What the heck, why not?" pickup game.
  6. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    Iverson - at his actual height and weight (NBA "here's how big he is" numbers are lies) - is slightly shorter and about 25lbs lighter than I am.
  7. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    Angus MacKaskill and Shaquille O'Neal - when scaled down to my 5'11" by the square-cube law - would weigh about what I and my siblings do: approximately 190lbs, give or take. Sun Ming Ming: about 165lbs. He doesn't look healthy. 165lbs is about the same weight as Allen Iverson. No one is going...
  8. bintananth

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    His height-weight proportions - scaled by the square-cube law - are comparable those of a heavyset professional athlete in a sport which requires endurance and quickness. Coincidentally, that also makes someone very strong. According to the NIH's online BMI caculator: 7'9" 425lbs is 34.5 and...
  9. bintananth

    The Cryptid/ Unexplained Event/ Paranormal Thread.

    Angus MacAskill? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacAskill He, surprisingly, did not have the kinds of health problems people that tall usually have. He was just all around big and died at the age of 37 or 38 from "brain fever" in 1863 ... which was used by doctors back then for what can...
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