•  tal   ( @tal@lemmy.today ) 
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      4 months ago

      Yeah…seems like it’d be pretty light if you include the armor, though, if it’s power-assisted.

      Samus Aran also lives in the future. We also don’t know how medical, genetic engineering, nutritional, or such changes might alter human physiology in the future, and that could be pretty substantial.

      Prior to WW2, Japan didn’t have access to a lot of milk.

      Subsequent to WW2, Japan started importing a lot of milk.

      The average Japanese height shot up.

      kagis

      This doesn’t have “age at 18”, which is what the chart I’m remembering had and is probably a better metric, but here:

      https://heightcomparison.us/average-height-in-japan/

      Japanese men who are 80+ years old average 5 feet, 3.8 inches. Japanese men age 20-24 average 5 feet, 7.7 inches.