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Originally Posted by grant hutchison
PraedSt, you might consider hunting down a copy of R McNeill Alexander's little book, Dynamics of Dinosaurs. It's rather old now, but it's a good primer for basic science and scaling laws.
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Thanks
Grant, I'll go look. He uses metric units I take it?
Metric, people! Metric is easy, all you have to do is move the little dot around!
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Originally Posted by grant hutchison
And they're casting around and cherry-picking for all their worth to try to make a convincing case. When I see people shirking the obvious detail, I stop reading.
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Yeah. I'm also noticing that the same 'facts' are used to support a variety of ATM arguments. For example, the link I gave
earlier, is a debunking of Ted Holden. Holden's...
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...conclusion is that nothing larger than an elephant is possible in 1g. His proposed solution is a "reduction in the felt effect of gravity" (by which he seems to mean the effective acceleration), due to a variant of Velikovskian Catastrophism, often called Saturnism.
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Velikovsky, and his maaaad planetary orbits. Next up, a proposal linking dinosaurs to UFOs...