GIANTS ON EARTH.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 453, 3 April 1912, Page 7

GIANTS ON EARTH.

Archaeologists have arisen now and then who claimed to have found evi dences of there having been a race oi giants on the earth in the pre-his toric ages in the form of man. Tc all such claims science can now brinforward commonsense and easily shown proof that man in his present shape cannot possibly be over the average height and weight of the human being of to-day. Of course, the weight of mest ol the body is on the two ankles ; but we can take the cross section at the snees for a demonstration and show that the weight above, the knees they have to support cannot vary except in narrow limits. If a certain loly. bone as an example, be made twice as large in every dimensicn—that is twice as long, twice as wide, an: twice as thick—the weight or mass will be eight times what it was ii the first case. But the cross sectior will only be four times what it was Now, the strength of matter fot holding up weight varies as the cros? section ; so if the dimensions were doubled it would have only foui times the strength, but would have Bight times the weight to carry. Apply this to the knees., and it is n t once seen that man in his present shape is absolutely impossible as a giant, unless his bones be made of iron or something equally as strong. His symmetry would bo destroyed and a race of giants, say, twelve or fifteen feet high, could • not possibly have the form of a man unless they walked on all four limbs instead ol two.