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A real headache to argue over (lemmy.world)

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[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

I mean, Goliath was called a giant but wasn't "my skull is the size of a full grown man's torso" big. He is said to be about 9'-9'9". Which, if there was historical legitimacy to the story, could easily be within the range of a very tall person that had their height exaggerated over time.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Agreed. Units are hard and for most of history there wasn't a wiki where you could look up the conversion between cubits, greek feet, roman feet, italian feet, french feet, and english feet to maybe get to some idea of how tall the "huge guy" was.

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah, also, imagine in the bronze age, a shaq sized dude was found and trained to be an elite warrior. I could totally see the men of that era, who encountered him in battle, telling tall tails of a 9 foot giant they had to fight.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I mean yeah Shaq would wreck shit back then, humans were generally much shorter in the past. Goliath would have seemed a giant if he were 6’3”

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