@owen_mccor The Kentucky Giant, Martin Van Buren Bates, was also 7'9 and to my knowledge a natural giant. No doubt of similar stock but I don't see him brought up nearly as much as I do McAskill.
To conclude, all of this has been said before, but the core of cosmic horror lies in circumstances under which there is no real objective malice but rather that the object of the horror is so unrelatable that that itself instills horror.
The popular conception of Lovecraft's horror stems from a fundamental misinterpretation of the nature of cosmic horror. The core of cosmic horror does not lie inherently in the evil or malicious but rather in our interpretation of the incomprehensible.
Further, Lovecraft's insistence upon the Cthulhu cultists and his other human enemies being mixed-race or otherwise poorly bred lies in the notion that these less civilized and more degenerate peoples are subjectively less appalled by alien horrors.
These people are so deranged that they are now bullying young white children into deleting their posts of support for Kirk’s legacy. The fact that we have third world foreigners doing this is absolutely sickening.
Newton, Galton, Euler, all of these men devoted their lives to their work because they believed that their work was important, they knew that their work was necessary for broader welfare and progress, and it was. What is this other than Heroism only in a modern context?
The time of Knights and Knaves is long gone, though many of us have a certain longing for it, it is never to return. Though what I suspect the majority of us long for is the overt, outward expression of Heroism in the classical sense.
Though this is long gone, Heroism, or the tendency of some men to do surpassingly great things has remained and simply changed form. Arthur Pendragon and Parzifal are long gone and never to return, but many of their virtues lie in later men of science.