Believing Everything You Hear

The Meraglim returned with large claims. They said they had seen giants to whom a human being was small as a grasshopper. What is the relationship between a human and a grasshopper? I’d say 1:100 is a conservative estimate. So it follows that these giants were 500 feet tall, almost half the size of the Empire State building. What then did they eat, these people? The Meraglim had the fruit in their arms, one carrying a pomegranate, another figs and the rest dragging the huge cluster of grapes. They were huge, to be sure, as were the general population in Canaan “and all the people we saw there were people of great measure”. But they were not food for giants like the 500 foot tall Nefilim. One of those guys would finish off a herd of cows for breakfast! For lunch he could eat out a vineyard and for supper an orchard. How long could that last?
Were there really people there of that gigantic size, or was it just the Meraglim making up stories in order to frighten the people? There were giants there, to be sure, people twenty or fifty feet tall. But as big as the Meraglim claimed?!
Perhaps the Jews, who had seen the actual size of those fruits, ought to have challenged the Meraglim. They ought to have taken a step back and seen that the Meraglim were working them, manipulating the crowd and stirring up panic. And they ought to then have rejected their testimony.