Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > sci.physics > #634935

Re: speaking of dinosaurs..

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, rec.arts.sf.written, alt.astronomy
Subject Re: speaking of dinosaurs..
Followup-To alt.1d
Date 2017-06-01 02:51 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <1689568.taCxCBeP46@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <CZadnYDPzd3FCLHEnZ2dnUU7-YvNnZ2d@giganews.com> <pn5uicts2dettghmgqk9k3hnomusghci0v@4ax.com> <CNSdnQpgTqxdo7LEnZ2dnUU7-avNnZ2d@giganews.com> <1914979.Mh6RI2rZIc@PointedEars.de> <slrnoiunlj.r5v.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz>

Cross-posted to 4 groups.

Followups directed to: alt.1d

Show all headers | View raw


Ned Latham wrote:

> Thomas 'PointyHead' Lahn wrote:
>> "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.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong>

> A physicist should know that,

A _crackpot_ may.

> Pointy Head.

So you *are* only a troll after all?

>> > Much smaller Taradactiles
>>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Pardon?
> 
> Pterodactyl, dummy.

Obviously the “dummy” is the person who could not write the word properly in 
the first place, and confused it with

<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Taradactile>

which is probably as far as their "education" went.

But there *have* *been* large _pterosaurs_ like the Pteranodon (wingspan ca. 
7 m) that could fly:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur>

Who doubts that should inform themselves about the skeleton of birds.
 
>> > were really stretching the envelope !
>> Why?
> 
> 'Coz they were big, dummy.

So you are only a troll after all.  A pity.  *PLONK*

F'up2 where it belongs

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

Back to sci.physics | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-05-29 13:21 -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.. 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.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-12 09:38 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-12 22:08 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-13 09:30 -0700
                Re: speaking of dinosaurs.. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-06-13 14:14 -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

csiph-web