Say my growth plates were still well and truly open and I suddenly started consuming lots of calories and exercising vigorously for no reason and in apposition to this, I found that I was growing an inch taller a month with no end in sight (much to the shock to family and friends!) - would this be shocking? Shocking enough to make the news? Or would it just be labelled as rare and there would be a “how strange” before I was forgotten and taken no notice of?
What do you think?
(Additionally, what if this rapid growth and development was the result of certain genetic mutations in my DNA - would that draw attention and scientific interest?)
Well, that makes a difference doesn’t it. I was going to say that I’m sure there are plenty of grade school kids that have grown an inch in a month (or close to it). I just measured my daughter using the unscientific “pencil mark on the wall” method and she did about 2 inches in the last 6 months and my family is known for growing pretty slowly (but coming out about average by the time we’re done with high school).
An inch every month OTOH, do you mean, like, forever? That’s a foot a year.
Sure, you’d make the news because you’d be the tallest person in the world in short order. You’d make your local news probably as soon as you hit 6’10" or so and were still growing.
ETA, looks like the tallest person in the world is just under 8 feet, so even if you’re 5 feet now, you’d pass that up in three years, assuming you were otherwise healthy and didn’t have a heart attack or stroke in the mean time.
No, rather I would grow an inch every month until my growth plates closed upon reaching a height of 6’11.
So, then, it is entirely possible for a human being to grow an inch every month until their growth plates fused?