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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by lmm on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:24PM (#42438319)
People who fled a famine so severe that it lead over 100% of that country's population to emigrate are surely a representative sample of a normal physique from that era, especially immediately after a week-long ocean crossing.
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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by brodouevencode on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:07AM (#42441431)
Name a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.
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Re:Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale by lmm on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:24PM (#42446922)
Of course most eras have famine victims, once-in-a-century famines happen more or less every century after all. But treating those famine victims as representatives of a normal physique for that era would be foolish, in any era.
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