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Sauropods, Elephants, Weightlifters

by Wayne Throop
Copyright © 1995-2003
[Text Last Updated: June 27, 1995]
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Since the time of the Great Renaming, which changed net.origins to talk.origins, Ted Holden has been repeatedly posting the claim that sauropod dinosaurs were too large to have existed in 1g acceleration. His argument is based on simple square-cube scaling of human weightlifter performance (in particular, the performance of Bill Kazmaier). His conclusion is that nothing larger than an elephant is possible in 1g. His proposed solution is a "reduction in the felt effect of gravity" (by which he seems to mean the effective acceleration), due to a variant of Velikovskian Catastrophism, often called Saturnism. Ted's materials in their current form can be found on his web pages dealing with catastrophism.

Ted's arguments are largely faulty. There are many different ways that the validity of Ted's argument can be checked. Here are just a few.

Some references are below if you wish to study further.
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Papers

Megafauna books

Elephant books

General biomechanics books


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