tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post6486269700399358217..comments2023-11-02T12:16:19.495+02:00Comments on The Jewish Worker: The Physics of Superheroes as applied to עוג מלך הבשן (Berachos 54b)blukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03774763780910614203noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11287959.post-70363345065429720962012-09-24T22:08:52.272+02:002012-09-24T22:08:52.272+02:00Og's ankle was 45 feet off the ground, meaning...<i>Og's ankle was 45 feet off the ground, meaning that he was 300-400 feet tall.</i><br /><br />You assume that he was proportioned normally. But the Chumash tells us almost explicitly that he was not: his bed was nine amos long באמות איש, which Rashi tells us means with his own amos. In other words, in proportion to his height, his arms were 1/3 the size they should be. So, perhaps he had tiny arms; or perhaps he just had enormous feet, relative to the rest of him, and his 45-foot ankles supported a body that was only another 30 or 40 feet tall. If the rest of him was more or less in normal proportions, and his head was ~35 feet above his ankles, then his forearms would be ~10 feet long, and a 90-foot bed would make sense for an 80-foot Og. Milhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350874508580081286noreply@blogger.com