Originally published at: With how much force did brachiosauruses vomit? | Boing Boing
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This sounds like an XKCD What If… sort of question. Information I never knew I needed!
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Okay, so how much force does vomit from a demon-possessed brachiosaurus a la The Exorcist generate?
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What are the odds that it would spew with its neck raised to full height though? Humans aren’t the only creatures that tend to bend down when retching.
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How do you think they all went extinct?
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Had a Buddy in high school that could tear the fabric of the universe with his vomit, what a champ he was.
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Not sure why this cracks me up, but it does.
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At least it’s good to know none of us will die that way, and these days you gotta take whatever good news you can get.
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Good point. The stomach would need to put almost the same amount of energy into lifting the puke up from near ground level (plus a bit more to overcome the resistance in the esophagus).
Those washboard abs would be the real killer.
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Yeah, name me an animal that pukes without lowering its head toward the ground.
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We really need a “rhetorical question” or “I don’t actually want to know the horrible, horrible truth” font.
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Adds that to my “don’t mess with” list.
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Comic Sans?
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For a moment there I thought the question and its framing was a classroom problem created by some really cool engineering prof… along the lines of our thermo class prof throwing us a compressed gas/Jethro Tull-aqualung problem. He was cool.
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Wow, missed this tidbit on my first go-round. Seriously? Maybe the brachiosaur decided to try a little carnivory and it disagreed with them? And, like, they know this is a brachiosaur puke crater how?
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WTF! Did that giraffe just vomit its ears off?
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It needs a word bubble and a full on caption contest above the tiny, terrified Dino.
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