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Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Live a million years but they're all five foot three. During the World Wars era it gave them an advantage in ship design because they could place the decks closer together than the Americans could. Their aircraft also tended to have really small cockpits, you ever read the declassified flight-test reports of captured Japanese A/C it's always the same complaint, "cockpit is small and cramped."

The height is definitely part of it. The larger you are, the more cells you have, the more that can get wrong, especially cancer. I forget the exact data I read in a study but being 6'4 compared to 5'6 is like the same increase in cancer and cardiovascular risk as being a pack a day smoker and alcoholic.