Telcontar
MOD
Since: Feb, 2012
Aug 16th 2014 at 2:04:45 PM
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(Please note: I read an abridged version of Gulliver's Travels several years ago, so these estimates may be wildly off.)
Hm. Picture us as the size of a Brobdingnagian. This means Gulliver is about what, two inches high? The average man is something like 68 inches, so Gulliver is 1/32th of us. Assuming the same difference is true for Lilliputians to Gulliver, Brobdingnagians would see them as 1/16th of an inch tall. So: about as visible as ants, and probably unable to communicate.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
Aug 17th 2014 at 4:48:46 AM
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Well, if Wikipedia is to be followed, the size ratios are 11/1-12/1 for Brobdingnagians to Gulliver and Gulliver to Lilliputians.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Headscratcher: what would happen if the Lilliputians made contact with the Brobdingnagians? Would they even be aware of each other?
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