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To: Fred Nerks

The most damning single thing in that indictment is the thing about what happens if a sauropod dinosaur holds his neck outwards roughly horizontally, i.e. the thing about having to hold something like 500,000 - 1,000,000 foot pounds of torque with muscle and sinew...


274 posted on 03/03/2014 11:53:39 PM PST by varmintman
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To: varmintman

In current conditions, the poor thing couldn’t feed itself...

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“An ultrasaur or seismosaur with a neck 40’ - 60’ long and weighing 25000 - 40000 lb., would be looking at 400,000 to nearly a million foot pounds of torque were one of them to try to hold his neck out horizontally. That’s crazy. You don’t hang a 30,000 lb load 40’ off into space even if it is made out of wood and structural materials, much less flesh and blood. No building inspector in America could be bribed sufficiently to let you build such a thing.”


280 posted on 03/04/2014 2:57:35 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
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