Re: The bigger they were...

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Jaimie's got a great point.... but if I were a big sauropod in a
cyclone, I'm with Jaime, but were I a big sauropod, I'd also be far more
worried about being whacked with a tree than I would falling over. 
Haven't done the numbers, but I sort of doubt that cyclone forces would
lift and move a sauropod once he decided to lie down and batten the
hatches for the blow.  However, being shotgunned with sharp bits of
trees and such moving at cyclone speeds might be bad for the health.
Jim

Jaime Headden wrote:
>   Not to quibble, but a cyclone-force wind would knock anything over, 
> including buildings of a size much larger and
> heavier than any sauropod, an elephant, and so forth. One would not need a 
> cyclone to bring down a sauropod,
> methinks.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Jaime A. Headden
> 
>   Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making leaps 
> in the face of adversity, that a
> simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all learn to walk soft, walk small, 
> see the world around us rather than
> zoom by it.
> 
>   "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)