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To: Alter Kaker

I am still trying to figure out how the blood circulated if this thing raised its head to the full extent.


5 posted on 10/15/2007 2:06:52 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Old Professer

Indeed. Even something as *small* as a giraffe needs to maintain substantial blood pressure merely to remain conscious. Granted, a dinosaur probably had a much more primative, undeveloped brain as compared to a camelopard, but it still needed some degree of circulation up at the end of the 56 feet of neck.


14 posted on 10/15/2007 2:12:18 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Old Professer
Dinosaurs had multiple hearts to overcome gravity. Their brains were contained in more than one location so you might say that like the Apple III they performed distributed processing.

Now you know where the term dinosaur operating system comes from.

23 posted on 10/15/2007 2:36:46 PM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: Old Professer

I am still trying to figure out how the blood circulated if this thing raised its head to the full extent.

And while you are at it, figure out how an animal that large and massive could even exist if gravity is constant ... the size and mass of land animals is a funtion of gravity strength. No such massive land animal could exist today - it would be crushed by its own weight.


57 posted on 04/22/2012 6:26:36 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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