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Scientists: T-Rex couldn't move fast
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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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To: medved
It is a very simple demonstration that there is a roughly 20,000 lb. limit for land animals in our present world; anything heavier than that would be unable to stand or walk at all.

Then how do you account for ...


81 posted on 02/27/2002 6:19:23 PM PST by strela
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To: scully
ping too! :)
83 posted on 02/27/2002 6:35:23 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RoughDobermann
But they sure could bop!


84 posted on 02/27/2002 6:39:24 PM PST by lds23
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To: cracker
Thanks for the ping! :)
85 posted on 02/27/2002 6:40:15 PM PST by Scully
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To: CharacterCounts
I visited the Everglades last week and saw many alligators. They had short little legs and huge jaws with large teeth. It was obvious they couldn't run fast.

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.

86 posted on 02/27/2002 6:47:32 PM PST by Physicist
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To: r9etb
So from the looks of it, these guys are way off-base.

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.

87 posted on 02/27/2002 6:50:16 PM PST by Scully
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To: xcon
This inane statement is enough to render the rest of the post invalid....

Translation into plain English: "My meager intellect ain't gonna cut it for understanding this ####; may as well try insulting the guy...

88 posted on 02/27/2002 7:07:40 PM PST by medved
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To: Saturnalia
Source?

That article has appeared in Aeon, Kronia, The Velikovskian, The Anomalist, and a couple of other journals.

89 posted on 02/27/2002 7:09:29 PM PST by medved
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To: RoughDobermann
Perhaps the T-Rex was on the level of a black or grizzly bear: esentially an opportunistic feeder, capable of pulling down sick or injured animals, the occasional healthy one (good luck there), but also scavaging. Perhaps in lean times fish or even some herbaceous matter would be consumed, though it's a bit of stretch to see such a large animal eating any kind of herbaceous material.
90 posted on 02/27/2002 7:10:04 PM PST by Cleburne
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To: xcon
Back to the monkey example. Do you think you could wrestle a 75lb monkey to the ground basing this on that you are an average strength male of 180lbs?

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...

91 posted on 02/27/2002 7:16:33 PM PST by medved
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To: Saturnalia
Paging people who KNOW what they talk about.

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.

92 posted on 02/27/2002 7:22:10 PM PST by medved
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To: Saturnalia
Source?

Rebuttal.

93 posted on 02/27/2002 7:33:23 PM PST by general_re
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To: general_re
Rebuttal to "rebuttal"...
94 posted on 02/27/2002 7:41:36 PM PST by medved
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To: medved
That would be a "surrebuttal" ;)
95 posted on 02/27/2002 7:49:19 PM PST by general_re
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To: general_re
Wayne Throop would try to rebut the sermon on the mount if he thought anybody would listen to him.
96 posted on 02/27/2002 8:03:35 PM PST by medved
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To: medved
Well, maybe...

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 ;)

97 posted on 02/27/2002 8:16:48 PM PST by general_re
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To: medved
An elephant can chase you down at 30 mph and then trample you. Why couldn't T-Rex have simply stomped his prey like an elephant?
98 posted on 02/27/2002 9:52:26 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: stanz
"... those yellow-tinged eyes and claws."

An artist's conception. Nobody knows what colors were on any part of a T-Rex.

99 posted on 02/27/2002 10:19:43 PM PST by Bonaparte
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