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By cludinsk on 11/2/2009 3:01:01 PM , Rating: 5
so by the year 5012 women will be 6 inches tall and weigh 570 pounds...

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By bighairycamel on 11/2/2009 3:05:55 PM , Rating: 5
What will they do with all the leftover "No fat chicks" T-shirts?

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By lightfoot on 11/2/2009 3:09:47 PM , Rating: 5
And they will be born pregnant and never go through menopause, just like tribbles.

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By Motoman on 11/2/2009 3:09:38 PM , Rating: 5
That would be awesome. Then men could just focus on their Lucy Liubots and not have to worry about the human race dying out.

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By scrapsma54 on 11/2/2009 3:14:58 PM , Rating: 2

How is this exciting?

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By AnnihilatorX on 11/2/2009 3:26:33 PM , Rating: 5
Exciting for any Burger King or McDonald executives I am sure.

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By TSS on 11/2/2009 6:22:10 PM , Rating: 5
That's funny actually.

First thing that came to my mind while reading the acticle is in the dark ages, humans where alot shorter. I belive humans got longer as living conditions improved: better food, sanitation, etc.

So if where shrinking again... living conditions must be deteriorating. Even though 1kg really isn't much in 400 years.

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By PlasmaBomb on 11/3/2009 4:40:08 AM , Rating: 2

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By mikefarinha on 11/2/2009 3:19:42 PM , Rating: 1
Are you taking into account the 'plumping with saltwater' factor?

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By Yawgm0th on 11/2/09, Rating: 0
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By GhandiInstinct on 11/2/2009 6:25:46 PM , Rating: 3
Technically on a planet with a low enough gravity they could weigh that much and not be fat.

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By marsbound2024 on 11/2/2009 7:15:27 PM , Rating: 1
You mean a planet with high enough gravity... :/

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By marsbound2024 on 11/5/2009 12:31:47 PM , Rating: 2
Not sure why I got rated down because if you have a low enough gravity, it means that if you weighed that much on that planet then came to Earth, you'd weigh even more so you'd be fat obviously. However, take what you weigh right now--if you are skinny--and go to Jupiter (if it had a solid surface). You would weigh a heck of a lot more and yet still have the same physical appearance. Weight = mass * gravity, folks!

RE: extrapolation
By Fracture on 11/5/2009 5:11:55 PM , Rating: 2

You SHOULD have said:

Technically on a planet with a low enough gravity they could be that fat and not weigh that much.

Otherwise in order to "weigh that much" (ie, the same weight), a skinny person would have to be on a high-gravity planet to weigh as much as a fat person would normally.


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