Let’s say that you and I were loose acquaintances and I was 6 foot 4 and had dark brown eyes.
We subsequently don’t see each other for five months and then I show up later (i.e. after those five months) standing more than a foot taller in height (i.e. 7’4) with blue eyes and a longer face - would you be suspicious? Would you be alarmed? What would go through your mind?
Just wondering…
What…I don’t even…huh?
are you an alien?
How would I even recognize you? You better have a distinctive tattoo or birthmark or something.
There are roughly less than 100 men over 7 feet tall in the US. Probably less than a 1000 in the whole world. If someone grew from 6’4" to 7’4" in a few months, I’d probably shoot them between the eyes because they’re clearly some kind of demon and/or hostile alien.
http://www.truthaboutit.net/2012/05/true-or-false-half-of-all-7-footers-are-in-the-nba.html
Great - and people wonder why intelligent life hasn’t contacted us… :mad:
I just hope that you’re not one of the first that comes into contact with extraterrestrial sentient beings. 
I’d be perfectly reasonable with a sentient being. But if you’re too stupid to pull off the human disguise trick, that’s the point in the movie when the invasion starts.
But just think about it for a second. If you were an intelligent extraterrestrial race and you wanted to invade Earth for resources or slaves - do you really think such a race would invade in the conventional Hollywood format? Guns blazing; fighters bombarding Earth?
Think about it - you’re sufficiently advanced to achieve FTL space travel - you’d be intelligent to pull off an invasion without even trying hard. You could easily release a toxin or something similar across the entire world (which even a gas mask or self-contained bunker couldn’t protect against) that would simply disable the entire human population and just strut in and do what you want.
If the intelligent race didn’t even want to use us, they could just gas the entire planet with us being non-the-wiser.
I highly doubt a super-intelligent interstellar-traveling race would invade Hollywood style unless they liked fighting and warring as a sport and relished at the prospect of a challenging invasion…
If the super-intelligent race has one of its officers masquerading as a 7’4" man (which, as I said, accounts for less than 100 people [most of them NBA players] in the entire country), how super-intelligent can they be?
This is on top of said 7-footer appearing to the public as a 6-footer just a few months before. These are clearly dangerous aliens who don’t care if they’re spotted. Probably because they shoot first and ask questions later. Probably because they like going in Hollywood guns blazing. Like Predators, it’s probably some kind of initiation rite for them. In other words… Hollywood is in on it man!
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I wouldn’t think extraterrestrial because that’s pretty much impossible, and demonic is a not starter, so probably I would think some medical experiment.
I would ask if your name is Rappaport.
I probably wouldn’t even notice if an acquaintance’s eyes changed color, and if I did I wouldn’t find this particularly suspicious – color contacts are a thing and I’ve known other people who used them.
But growing a foot taller, to a height that would make you several inches taller than anyone I’ve ever met and likely the tallest person in the state? I’m pretty sure I’d notice that, and yes it would be pretty alarming once I realized you were the same person and not just a really tall man who resembled my acquaintance.
The obvious explanation for why someone might be well over 7’ tall and have an unusually long face would be because their pituitary gland (or a hormone producing tumor of the pituitary gland) produced excess amounts of growth hormone, which can lead to both gigantism and acromegaly. However, I don’t think it’s possible for gigantism to suddenly occur in an adult. It’s certainly possible for an adult to develop a hormone producing tumor, but to the best of my knowledge these wouldn’t cause someone’s height to change if they’d already finished growing and I’m guessing wouldn’t cause such a rapid change in height even in an adolescent.
Yes.
Probably
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My first concern would probably be that I was experiencing some kind of psychosis.
I sort of had an experience like this once. I used to go to a store and I knew the owner. He was a really big guy - around 6’6" and 360 lbs. I moved out of the area and didn’t see him for around a year. I happened to be back in town one day and stopped in his store. His height hadn’t changed but he had lost around 120 pounds.
I didn’t say anything about it. Because I was thinking that while he may have lost weight through diet and exercise, it was also possible he had contracted some serious illness.
I’d assume he had some kind of extreme glandular condition that I had never heard of. And I’d definitely hope he wouldn’t just keep on growing indefinitely.
I would assume you must have been one of those illegal castrati, because getting snipped early, your pituitary or whatever would not get the signal to stop growing. Though, a foot in a year is a bit much, I would not expect much more than an inch or three.
Personally as this is the second thread with a similar premise you’ve started in the past few days I’m wondering if you’re trying to tell us something? 
Anyway, on the topic of the thread, if we’re only loose acquaintances how would I know it was really you in the first place?
Secondly if I was convinced it was really you I’d be wondering how it happened and question you about it. The change in eye colour and facial structure is probably more strange than the increase in height. I’d wonder if there’s been some breakthrough in genetic engineering or other technology and you’re a test-subject. Though why someone would want to be a foot taller than an already respectable height is beyond me.
I bet you’re a mad scientist testing the waters here before revealing yourself to the world? You are, aren’t you?
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My first thought would probably be, “Huh. That really tall guy looks sort of like that loose acquaintance of mine.”