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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With
 Dinosaurs
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:35:14 -0700
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On 8/25/2024 5:31 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> 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!
> 
And I was right!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/

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