Then how do you account for ...
Posted on 02/27/2002 10:29:03 AM PST by RoughDobermann
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
STANFORD, California (CNN) -- New models of the leg muscles of Tyrannosaurus Rex suggest that a real T-Rex might not have passed the screen test for "Jurassic Park." Stanford University researchers writing in the British journal Nature this week suggest that a T-Rex could not have been able to run as fast as the one in the movie -- and might not have been able to run at all.
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They don't look too different from crocodiles. Try outrunning one of them sometime.
A rhinoceros doesn't look like it's particularly built for speed, but man, can it book.
Another consideration from an "empirical" point of view: We once were owned by an iguana named Chuck, who ate prodigious amounts of cottage cheese. When he reached the fine length of 4' (nose to tail-tip) I found I could no longer control him physically and he had to be given away. Mind you, he was no bigger around the middle than say my upper arm, but his repitilian muscles got the better of me. And...when motivated he could move like the wind!
For those who like happy endings, Chuck is still alive and munching his way happily through many cartons of cottage cheese.
Translation into plain English: "My meager intellect ain't gonna cut it for understanding this ####; may as well try insulting the guy...
That article has appeared in Aeon, Kronia, The Velikovskian, The Anomalist, and a couple of other journals.
How about this: I'll use the Savage weatherwarrior, 300 WM with Winchester/Nosler 180 grain ballistic tips, 75 grains of RE 19 powder, and you can bring any monkey you want, size don't matter...
Assuming you get somebody who knows what he's talking about, which wouldn't include the two guys you paged, try asking them about this:
That's one of the column stones in Baalbek Lebanon. The US Army Corps of Engineers and one of its major contractors, Bechtel, have stated that no modern technology, much less any ancient technology, could move that stone. In other words, you could take everything in the US military with wheels, treads, and engines, and chain it ALL to that thing, and it wouldn't budge it an inch.
Attenuated gravity in prehistoric times is the only answer I know of which works.
Anyway, I don't have an agenda here, other than to point out that there's plenty of argument on both sides of that issue. I've lurked in t.o. long enough to know that this is not a new discussion by any means. Which, obviously, you are also well aware of ;)
An artist's conception. Nobody knows what colors were on any part of a T-Rex.
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