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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.