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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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To: Swordmaker

I’ve made no attacks on you, SM. I may engage in some banter with JS, but my questions to you were real. Did I screw the math up? I tried to use a very simple example.


198 posted on 03/31/2008 10:56:04 AM PDT by Shryke
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