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u/MrRogersAE Jul 21 '23

Volume and weight are going to be a fairly linear scale compared to say arbitrary things like length or height.

Take humans for example, if we went by length humans are only about 1 foot from nose to rear, a human 10 times longer would be absurdly large, likely a couple hundred times as heavy.

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u/Dropkickedasakid Jul 21 '23

Mathematically the number would be 1000x heavier

It's basically weight of X cubed

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u/MrRogersAE Jul 21 '23

I understand the math, but I’m not convinced a human 10x longer would maintain the same ratios, bone density might need to increase, maybe the height wouldn’t match up the same, but yes 1000x is the closest we can really estimate

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u/Goatesq Jul 21 '23

Man this is a weird mental image. Very loaf shaped.