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The billion dollar question: can this somehow help develop treatment for making bones longer?

bregma 2y ago
According to the unsolicited email I regularly receive, there are already products on the market for making bones longer. And lasting all night, which would I guess make it significantly easier to get out of bed in the morning.
isoprophlex 2y ago
I'm missing something, what good are long bones, specifically? Seems to me strength is the most important parameter, especially in aging populations..?
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Height, dating marketplace. Status in general. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-19/dating-apps-and-male-beauty-standards-why-are-tinder-users-so-obsessed-with-height.html https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-19/dating-apps-an... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamfauzia/height-dating-apps https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamfauzia/height-dat... https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/only-15-women-interest-58-men-dating-apps-according-survey https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/only-15-women-interest-58-... https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-online-dating-a9e3990d6ae2 https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-onli...
  - Wohlf 2y ago
    If everyone is 6 foot no one is. 7 foot would just become the new baseline.
  - isoprophlex 2y ago
    Okay wow that's immediately obvious. Thanks... My mind got stuck at octogenarians growing absurdly long bones in the autumn of their lives
    - magnetowasright 2y ago
      Picturing octogenarians with disproportionately long arms and legs is hilarious. Beats shrinking in height from bone loss and the impacts of having a fall in your 80s.
  - hooverd 2y ago
    Online dating seems miserable! Although the misery makes sense to me. It's a highly competitive arena with very low friction. It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat. * I met my first real partner online- but that was on MySpace pre-appification of everything. I haven't dated anyone I met online since, so maybe I'm just talking out of my ass here.
    - shiroiushi 2y ago
      >It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat. Totally opposite of my experience when I was last using them. CL was absolutely full of scammers trying to send me cashier's checks for stuff. FBM had people who were real people, who actually came with cash to buy my stuff. FBM's UI was absolutely terrible, but it was worth it to avoid all the scamming on CL. >Online dating seems miserable! I met all my girlfriends on there in the past couple of decades. The latest one is working out wonderfully. Sure, there were some bad dates and some not-so-great people, but you'll get that anywhere.
gffrd 2y ago
Reminds me of this article from a few years ago about guys getting leg-lengthening surgery: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/leg-lengthening-surgery-men https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/leg-lengthen...
rideontime 2y ago
This is getting downvoted, but they only need to find one short, insecure billionaire to make this comment come true.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  Bezos and Zuckerberg are both 5' 7" (170cm), interestingly enough.
  - FuriouslyAdrift 2y ago
    Tom Cruise, too (or shorter... allegedly)
- shermantanktop 2y ago
  Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the track record of billionaires throwing money at problems unrelated to how they made their billions is not great. Yachts are easy to buy, cancer cures and life extension technologies are not so easy to buy.
- YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
  This becoming viable would do to high-status men what white lead makeup did to high status women in the 19th century. Being tall isn’t as important as being taller than average, so you’d create an arms race among those who could afford the treatment. Which itself would strengthen the association between being short and being poor. And we all know how this ends, with a 7 foot tall millionaires dying of heart attacks as their circulatory system doesn’t naturally scale with their height.
AprilArcus 2y ago
No, once the epiphyseal plates close further growth of long bones is impossible. Only intervention during puberty can influence final adult height.
- rjurney 2y ago
  So feed it to kids!
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moffkalast 2y ago
Smh, these slenderman cosplayers are really going too far.

According to the unsolicited email I regularly receive, there are already products on the market for making bones longer. And lasting all night, which would I guess make it significantly easier to get out of bed in the morning.

isoprophlex 2y ago

I'm missing something, what good are long bones, specifically? Seems to me strength is the most important parameter, especially in aging populations..?

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Height, dating marketplace. Status in general. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-19/dating-apps-and-male-beauty-standards-why-are-tinder-users-so-obsessed-with-height.html https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-07-19/dating-apps-an... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamfauzia/height-dating-apps https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamfauzia/height-dat... https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/only-15-women-interest-58-men-dating-apps-according-survey https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/only-15-women-interest-58-... https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-online-dating-a9e3990d6ae2 https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-onli...
- Wohlf 2y ago
  If everyone is 6 foot no one is. 7 foot would just become the new baseline.
- isoprophlex 2y ago
  Okay wow that's immediately obvious. Thanks... My mind got stuck at octogenarians growing absurdly long bones in the autumn of their lives
  - magnetowasright 2y ago
    Picturing octogenarians with disproportionately long arms and legs is hilarious. Beats shrinking in height from bone loss and the impacts of having a fall in your 80s.
- hooverd 2y ago
  Online dating seems miserable! Although the misery makes sense to me. It's a highly competitive arena with very low friction. It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat. * I met my first real partner online- but that was on MySpace pre-appification of everything. I haven't dated anyone I met online since, so maybe I'm just talking out of my ass here.
  - shiroiushi 2y ago
    >It reminds me of using Facebook Marketplace vs Craigslist. FBM is full of the worst, flakiest people to coordinate a transaction with. The added friction from CL cuts down of the number of drive-bys and lowballers somewhat. Totally opposite of my experience when I was last using them. CL was absolutely full of scammers trying to send me cashier's checks for stuff. FBM had people who were real people, who actually came with cash to buy my stuff. FBM's UI was absolutely terrible, but it was worth it to avoid all the scamming on CL. >Online dating seems miserable! I met all my girlfriends on there in the past couple of decades. The latest one is working out wonderfully. Sure, there were some bad dates and some not-so-great people, but you'll get that anywhere.

gffrd 2y ago

Reminds me of this article from a few years ago about guys getting leg-lengthening surgery: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/leg-lengthening-surgery-men https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/leg-lengthen...

rideontime 2y ago

This is getting downvoted, but they only need to find one short, insecure billionaire to make this comment come true.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
Bezos and Zuckerberg are both 5' 7" (170cm), interestingly enough.
- FuriouslyAdrift 2y ago
  Tom Cruise, too (or shorter... allegedly)
shermantanktop 2y ago
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) the track record of billionaires throwing money at problems unrelated to how they made their billions is not great. Yachts are easy to buy, cancer cures and life extension technologies are not so easy to buy.
YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
This becoming viable would do to high-status men what white lead makeup did to high status women in the 19th century. Being tall isn’t as important as being taller than average, so you’d create an arms race among those who could afford the treatment. Which itself would strengthen the association between being short and being poor. And we all know how this ends, with a 7 foot tall millionaires dying of heart attacks as their circulatory system doesn’t naturally scale with their height.

AprilArcus 2y ago

No, once the epiphyseal plates close further growth of long bones is impossible. Only intervention during puberty can influence final adult height.

rjurney 2y ago
So feed it to kids!

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moffkalast 2y ago

Smh, these slenderman cosplayers are really going too far.