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Re: speaking of dinosaurs..

Message-ID	<592F7E41.449@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date	2017-05-31 19:38 -0700
From	The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, rec.arts.sf.written, alt.astronomy
Subject	Re: speaking of dinosaurs..
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Ned Latham wrote:
> 
> Thomas 'PointyHead' Lahn wrote:
> >
> > [Your readers are _not_ hyper-intelligent bats used to reading from bottom
> > to top.  Also, in English, punctuation is seldom preceded by space.
> > Learn to post.]
> >
> > "Hägar" amok-crossposted across 4 newsgroups:
> >
> > > The physics of an organic creature that big ( e.g. - Brontasaurus )
> >
> > There is no "Brontasaurus". Perhaps you were thinking of _Brontosaurus_,
> > but nobody has claimed that Brontosaurus could fly.
> >
> > > flying are prohibitive !
> >
> > Why?
> 
> As organsisms increase in size, the cross-section, and thus the
> load-bearing capacity, of body parts increases with the square
> of the size increase, whereas the mass increases with its cube.
> A physicist should know that, Pointy Head.
> 
> > > Much smaller Taradactiles
> >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Pardon?
> 
> Pterodactyl, dummy.
> 
> > > were really stretching the envelope !
> >
> > Why?
> 
> 'Coz they were big, dummy.


There is no proof that a brontosaurus ever existed. 


People in that field make up stuff just like NASA with underground oceans a billions of earth.

Thread

speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-29 13:21 -0700
  speaking of dinosaurs.. "David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller" <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-29 14:29 -0700
  Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-29 14:40 -0700
    Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-29 18:08 -0700
    Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. SteveGG <casagiannoni@optonline.net> - 2017-05-31 15:22 -0400
      Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-31 15:07 -0700
        Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-06-01 01:41 +0200
          Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-31 19:24 -0500
            Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-06-01 02:51 +0200
              Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Fred Flintstone <fred@ptera.dactyl.town> - 2017-05-31 21:05 -0500
            Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-31 19:38 -0700
              Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-05-31 21:53 -0500
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-01 05:36 -0400
            Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2017-06-01 04:55 +0000
              Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Ned Latham <nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz> - 2017-06-01 00:26 -0500
              Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-07 23:02 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-08 05:18 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-08 22:38 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-09 10:41 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-09 10:57 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-10 11:01 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-10 12:52 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-12 09:38 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-12 11:48 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-12 22:08 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-13 05:07 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-13 09:30 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-13 10:41 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-13 14:14 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. Paparios <mrios@ing.puc.cl> - 2017-06-13 16:02 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-13 20:46 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-14 12:28 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-14 12:37 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-15 09:08 -0700

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