Yao Ming Making People Look Small

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tfinch2

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http://allball.blogs.nba.com/2013/07/22/yao-ming-making-people-look-small

This one is the best. He makes Dwight Howard and Hakeem look like shrimps.

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SP33Demon

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Size means nothing if your ligaments and muscles cannot support it. He will also probably die early like Andre the Giant, the human heart wasn't meant to pump blood that far, it takes an enormous toll on the body going against gravity.
 
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SP33Demon said:
Size means nothing if your ligaments and muscles cannot support it. He will also probably die early like Andre the Giant, the human heart wasn't meant to pump blood that far, it takes an enormous toll on the body going against gravity.
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Andre the Giant died cause he kept an extreme amount of weight on his body, not cause he was tall. He will out live most NFL lineman who are 6'2" - 6'7".
 
SP33Demon

SP33Demon

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swanysto said:
Andre the Giant died cause he kept an extreme amount of weight on his body, not cause he was tall. He will out live most NFL lineman who are 6'2" - 6'7".
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You have quite the simpleton mentality.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1187806/2/index.htm

The relative life expectancy of a 7-footer is foggy, but scientists do know that a human being's medically optimal height is considerably closer to 6'1" than it is to 7'1". Grow nearer to the latter mark, says John Komlos, an economist who studies height at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, and "health diminishes: back, heart, bones. Mortality rate rises." Adds Gowriharan Thaiyananthan, co--medical director of the Chapman Neurosurgical and Spine Institute in Orange, Calif., and a neurosurgeon who's operated on four 7-footers himself, "Our bodies were not designed to be 7 feet tall. That's like turning a car into a stretch limo: Things work, but it's not what nature decided is our optimal state. You're pushing every organ system to its limit."
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This is common sense that the human body has not evolved to live long in such a body.
 
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sactoking

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There's a tiny bit of optical illusion in that photo. Ralph Sampson was listed at 7'4", Dwight Howard at 6'11", and Hakeem Olajuwon at 6'10". Howard and Olajuwon appear to be about the same height which is correct. Sampson appears to be severl inches taller than Olajuwon and Howard, which is correct. Yao appears to be taller than Sampson by more than Sampson is taller than Howard. That would make Yao ~7'10", which we all know is wrong (He was listed at 7'6"). If you look at their feet, Yao is standing with his back foot approximately even with the heel of Sampson's front foot. That means Yao is several inched closer to the camera, making him look bigger than he is.

Not to say that he isn't huge or anything.
 
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SP33Demon said:
Size means nothing if your ligaments and muscles cannot support it. He will also probably die early like Andre the Giant, the human heart wasn't meant to pump blood that far, it takes an enormous toll on the body going against gravity.
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You sound like a bitter manlet.
 
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