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I'm not great at evaluating the quality of Journals (Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly is at least peer reviewed), but that article has been
by feoren 5y ago
I'm not great at evaluating the quality of Journals (Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly is at least peer reviewed), but that article has been cited 0 times, and its abstract reads like a YouTube video trying to convince me Bush did 9/11.
> how can a giant dinosaur such as an apatosaur pump blood up to its brain (more than 13 m above its heart) when animal energetics and physics say that in no way can it do it. Do we have to change the laws of physics and biology? I don’t think so.
The "Science says it's impossible! Either we have to change the laws of science, or <my one pet alternative theory out of 10 million other alternatives> must be true!" is just really characteristic of that style.
- robbedpeter 5y agoWe don't have soft tissue or a specific understanding of internal organs. Maybe they had multiple hearts with multiple vascular systems, or maybe the rate of blood flow and chemistry of energy production differed from animals we do understand. All we know for sure is that the brontosaurus was way too big for its biology to be understood by similarity to any extant creatures. Maybe we'll be able to simulate dna, protein, and evolution at some point such that we can sample huge spaces to see if we can reconstruct creatures with similar features.