From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 18:09:06 MDT
> (Doug Jones <djones@xcor.com>):
> Heh. It would end when the users looked like anime characters or
> barbie dolls, with freakishly long legs- unless one could do the
> same trick for vertebrae.
There's already quite a bit of variation in human proportions that
would make significant extensions not that noticible. For example,
I'm already tall (190 cm), but I have short legs--all of my height
is above the waist. I can buy pants off the rack with a 30" inseam,
but I get shirts at the big-and-tall shop with 8 buttons. I could
probably add another whole foot without looking too freakish (though
I probably still couldn't play basketball worth a damn--height won't
make up for being old, slow, uncoordinated, and blind. Might also
make my fondness for petite women even more awkward than it is now.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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