Posted on 05/02/2014 3:41:15 PM PDT by blam
Ok, now that last, that’s funny right there! Can’t say I disagree.
Heck - I grew almost 6” in one year when I was going from 10 to 11 years old...
Location may have something to do with it. I grew up in an Eastern State and moved to North Dakota for Grad School, then work, and have been here since. At roughly 6 ft. in height, I consider myself fairly average in ND, but when I go back east, I seem to have a generally unobscured view over the heads in the room.
A few years back, I got to go aboard the '909', a B-17 which was on tour and landed in Williston, ND with The All-American, a B-24, also of WWII vintage. These were the backbone of American bombing efforts in Europe. I got to go inside both planes, and check out the various positions which people occupied in the aircraft.
It was summer, I rode my motorcycle over, so I had on a T-shirt, jeans, and a leather jacket, nothing so much as the flight gear required at altitude for bombing missions in these planes back in the war.
I stood in the top turret position on the 909, and barely fit from shoulder to shoulder. Forget even thinking about getting into a ball turret. It dawned on me, that most of these guys were just not as large as I was, some considerably shorter and lighter than my (then) 6 ft.+ and 220 lbs.
Considering how rough flying duty in the 8th Air Force and other outfits must have been, though, men who have always had my respect gained just a little more. As a rule, these men were not the tallest, the biggest men in the room, but the deeds they did, their raw courage in going up mission after mission despite sometimes lousy odds, has ever earned them my respect. It is the deeds a man does which make him great, not the length of his shadow.
That said, I am about 4 inches taller than my Dad, who grew up during the Depression. I always credited that to eating well as a child.
We have to act now before it is too late.
Hey, dynamite comes in small packages. It is the size of your deeds that is the measure of a person, not how low the cabinet doors have to be before you duck...
Ottawa: The highest point in the city is 166 m (545 ft) above sea level, and the lowest point is the Ottawa River, at 44m above sea level.
Lethbridge: Lethbridge is 2,950 feet [899 m] above sea level.
Air pressure above sea level can be calculated as:
p = 101325 (1 - 2.25577 10-5 h)5.25588
where
p = air pressure (Pa)
h = altitude above sea level (m)
For ease of calculation, using Ottawa at 100 m elevation and Lethbridge at 900 m elevation, so Ottawa's 'normal' air pressure is 100.129kPa (14.522 psi, 29.568" Hg@32F) and Lethbridge's 'normal' air pressure is 90.970kPa (13.194 psi, 26.863" Hg@32F). It would be interesting to see what the difference in average height between the two cities over the last hundred years might be and how nutrition also affects this data.
I am sure that I may have just suggested a research project for some professors at the U of L. Yet more ways to justify all the government grants they receive and also helping to justify their positions! Unfortunately, paid for by my tax dollars! Hopefully, no ND university types read this, or a similar study may be funded by YOUR tax dollars!
Mum's the word!
Besides, I think we're safe. Not that many University research types would be reading here from the States, they'd be over at DU...Alberta might be a different matter.
I have always felt the huge amount of hormones used in cattle made Americans much larger than wimpy Euros.
Now, we tall Americans are being invaded by tiny Mexicans. In the grocery store I have to bend over to write a check on the tiny tables for Mexican shoppers.
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