Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: What was the breviparopus? Message-ID: <811@psivax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:30:22 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.811 Posted: Fri Oct 25 18:30:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 03:46:10 EST References: <435@imsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 28 Summary: In article <435@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) writes: > > This creature was the >breviparopus, and the tracks indicate he was 160 feet long. Using the 1.6 >to 1 ratio, cubed, and the 100 to 150 ton weight estimates for the ultrasaur, >it would seem that the breviparopus weighed between 800,000 and 1,200,000 >lbs. Does anybody believe that such a thing could exist in our gravity? Yes, I see no reason why it couldn't. Besides your assumptions in estimating the weight are questionable. The "ultrasaur" was a brachiosaurid, and was thus among the heavier sauropods in terms of bulk. If the Breviparopus were a diplodocid it would be considerably lighter in build, and thus the square-cube law would *not* apply. > >A co-worker of mine has a theory as to how a Texas pterosaur, or Quetzalcoatlus >Northropi could have lived in our gravity, assuming that the breviparopus also >could have. This would have involved a symbiotic relationship between the >two in which, for a reasonable fee, the breviparopus would use its mighty >tail to HURL the pterosaur up into the thermal currents, where it could >resume its gliding. Well, except that they did not live at the same time!! -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!friesen ARPA: ttidca!psivax!friesen@rand-unix.arpa