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To: Swordmaker
As I mentioned in an earlier reply, paleontologists were so shocked at the figures they were getting using the Square Cube Law...

A sane person, noting that assumptions about proportions and scaling lead to questionable answers, first thinks about adjusting assumptions.

But you, who are clever enough to equate the proportions of your seven foot fossil with that of a teratorn, are a world class expert on assumptions.

190 posted on 03/31/2008 9:57:24 AM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138; Shryke
You have now resorted to the last refuge of a person without an argument... ad hominem attack.

Regardless of the properly done math, they fudged their answers with no good reason to suspect that the Square Cube Law was in any way wrong. Nor do they have any evidence that the assumptions about body density is somehow different for larger sauropods than for smaller ones. They merely adjust downward until they were more comfortable with the answers... and that is NOT good science. That is sweeping the data under the rug and ignoring something that doesn't fit their preconceived notions.

You, on the other hand, choose to attack my sanity. JS, even their doctored results are far beyond the theoretical maximum for animals to walk on land... far beyond. What do you think would be an acceptable weight for a 120 foot dinosaur? And what would it be made of? Helium?

197 posted on 03/31/2008 10:53:23 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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