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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
 Dinosaurs
Date: 26 Aug 2024 00:13:10 -0000
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Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>On 2024-08-24, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
>> So, I found a PDF and reread it. I only have one quibble. I don't think 
>> a 600 Nitro Express would be big enough for large dinosaur. Maybe an RPG 
>> or some armor piercing .50 cal. Or maybe a Çarl Gustaf.
>
>Large theropods were about the weight of a large African elephant,
>so I think if you go hunting T. Rex, an elephant gun like .500 Nitro
>Express should do the job.  For sauropods, there simply aren't any
>extant land animals that could serve as a point of reference.  As
>a wild guess, I'd think an M2 machine gun would bring the animal
>down rather sooner than later, but this might invite accusations
>of animal cruelty.

The problem is that those lizards have distributed brains instead of 
having everything in one place like an elephant.  So you can fire that
..850 Express into the head of an elephant and have it collapse, but 
it's likely that the dinosaur will keep on going (perhaps even more
effectively than a chicken).

There are other good targets like the heart (although some have supposed
that some larger dinosaurs may have had multiple hearts).  

Random spraying with the M2 is not sporting.  Nor is a 155mm howitzer.
--scott

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