Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories That Know Everything's Better With Dinosaurs

On 26/08/2024 10:13, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2024-08-24, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
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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.

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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.  So you can fire that
.850 Express into the head of an elephant and have it collapse, but
it's likely that the dinosaur will keep on going (perhaps even more
effectively than a chicken).
 There are other good targets like the heart (although some have supposed
that some larger dinosaurs may have had multiple hearts).
 Random spraying with the M2 is not sporting.  Nor is a 155mm howitzer.
--scott
 

The howitzer is likely to attract far more scavengers due to the lovely edible debris spread over a large area!
Cheers,
Gary B-)