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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
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On 8/25/2024 5:13 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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. 

I thought that "secondary brain" meme got debunked decades ago!

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