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1 posted on 01/22/2007 4:20:14 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Interesting. L'd never heard of 4 wing dinosaurs.


2 posted on 01/22/2007 4:23:21 PM PST by From many - one.
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A Biplane dinosaur.....now I've heard of everything.
3 posted on 01/22/2007 4:23:53 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: LibWhacker

There has been so much fraud in this subject, like about 100%, that I'm surprised anybody would put his real name on a story like this.


5 posted on 01/22/2007 4:29:07 PM PST by SmartAZ
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"Either it was an evolutionary experiment in one group of dinosaurs that eventually failed ..."

They weren't just biplanes, they were scientists too!


6 posted on 01/22/2007 4:31:21 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Do they know if any of these dinosaurs had ivory beaks?


7 posted on 01/22/2007 4:40:32 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: LibWhacker

A biplane wing is a more complex design too. I wonder.


10 posted on 01/22/2007 4:45:07 PM PST by ColdSteelTalon
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The team realised that this wing configuration could not provide a Microraptor with powered flight; the dinosaurs would have been capable only of gliding. More importantly, the dinosaur had no way of lifting their wings up, so during a ground-based take-off the wings would have been damaged.
By analysing the dinosaur's aerodynamics, the researchers calculated that Microraptor could have travelled more than 40 metres with a small jump from a tall tree. It would have fallen quickly to begin with, but then could have swooped back up to land on the branch of another tree.

So they were merely falling... with style. ;^)

/Toy Story

11 posted on 01/22/2007 4:47:45 PM PST by Teacher317
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Curse you, Red Baronosaurus!!


12 posted on 01/22/2007 4:48:30 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: LibWhacker

I thought that pigs could fly once too. Ham on the Fly.


15 posted on 01/22/2007 5:25:45 PM PST by laweeks (I)
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To: LibWhacker

Now this is worth looking at.


17 posted on 01/22/2007 7:22:37 PM PST by FastCoyote
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YEC INTREP


18 posted on 01/22/2007 7:51:41 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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From the BBC:

Flying dinos had bi-plane design

21 posted on 01/22/2007 10:38:30 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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