Height limitations enforced by bone strength

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                An Analysis of Height Limitations Enforced by Bone Strength

Wouldn’t it just be amazing if there was no limit to anything?  What if we could eat all we want none stop and nothing would happen?  Or what if we could write a paragraph and call it an essay?  Yes, but unfortunately our world doesn’t work like that.  There are limits on everything and anything even our growth.  There is a certain height limit that we cannot exceed or else our bones won’t be able to support our weight and just tumble down.  But what is this incredulous height of which we cannot exceed?  Well that is one answer I am ready to find out.

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        We know that that no human can exceed 200 Mpa.  Mammals like us have a ratio of 3 to five times the safety factors of the working stress to the breaking stress.  It would be ridiculous to use 5 times because a human cannot, as I said before, exceed 200 Mpa, and five times the safety factor would exceed it.  So I have chosen to work with 3.  Since I’m using 3, I have to create a table that shows when our bone stress reaches 200.   I am using an average male which would be 189lbs. and 5’9.  The ...

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