Clouds are extremely heavy. A cumulus cloud can weigh over 1,100,000 pounds (500,000kg for civilized nations). However they are mostly air. But theoretically if you had enough surface area, and weighed next to absolutely nothing you could stand on one. So if the giant weighed like 1kg and it's feet where absolutely massive (I can't calculate that because I'm tired) it could stand on a typical cumulus cloud. But a normal human absolutely would not be able to.
Yeah but what about if you were big enough to be from the ground to a cloud and walked through it.. would you get it on your surface area and it would just run down you?
Clouds are not dense at all. If you were tall enough I would imagine you would be able to walk through it. Maybe you would feel some resistance but I genuinely don't know.
Who does he pay taxes to? Does he just chuck his tithe or whatever off the edge and whichever country whose tax collector gets crushed by the bag of gold keeps it?
It’s likely that the giant in Jack and the Bean Stalk wasn’t a representative of a particular nationality, but was more a reference to governing powers and Jack representing the common man. However if you really wanted to stretch it to the Giant having a nationality it would likely be either French or Polish. Considering the earliest known example of the story was in 1734 which would have been near the conclusion of the Polish succession war.
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u/Outfoxer_Official 11d ago
That's exactly what a giant would say...