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u/ADramaticHero Aug 09 '26
The comic is based on a fossil that confused scientists based on the appearance of it looking like a massive wet splat with a small dinosaur in the middle. Scientists ran the numbers, (like the diagram) and calculated that a huge long neck ass dinosaur launching its lunch would crush a small dinosaur from the impact.
It makes sense, you would expect a Chihuahua to survive dumping a bucket of liquid and solid slop off a 3 story building balcony
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u/ObnoxiousName_Here Aug 09 '26
Is this implying that the Braciosaurus ate other dinosaurs and is throwing up its bones, or that the acid and the velocity of its vomit dissolved one of those raptors that was too close to flee?
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u/SassyTheSkydragon Aug 09 '26
I mean horses and deer will eat birds and other small animals if they get the chance, so this isn't far fetched
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u/landrwastaken Aug 09 '26
Idk where I saw it but I believe this did eat small feathered dinosaurs.. we're talking like max 50 cm, no 3 meter giant velociraptors
Could've been an accident as,ell cause they much huge amounts of leafs and there happened to be a small avian raptor type thing in there
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u/spaacingout Aug 10 '26
lol, kinda funny to think about.
Only thing is… it’s assuming a long necked and probably ruminant herbivore can vomit. Not impossible, but the longer the neck, the more difficult and more damaging it would be to do so. Take for example giraffes 🦒
They could vomit, but doing so would cause a lot of damage to their esophagus. Much like cows they regurgitate cud to chew it again, just to swallow it back down, so it very rarely exits the body on purpose.
Almost all ruminant herbivores have a complex stomach, consisting of 4 chambers. The first two chambers work as sort of a fermentation vat. When they eat something that doesn’t digest easily, it gets regurgitated back to the first chamber, or to be chewed as cud until it does break down easily enough to be digested.
A ruminant herbivore actually throwing up is a bad sign, usually indicating intestinal blockage that could be lethal. Something like a rock that accidentally got swallowed.
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u/sthetic Aug 09 '26
I would expect them to stick their necks out to puke, so that their head is on a level with their stomach, the way a horking pet does.
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u/ChemicalChildhood122 Aug 09 '26
im not sure they even could vomit. lots of animals cant
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u/cyri-96 Aug 10 '26
And in the case thst they can they almost certainly wouldn't do it with their head raised up
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u/oygibu Aug 11 '26
This is very interesting however I did read this post's title in TF2 Engineer's voice.
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u/sparks_the_protogen Aug 12 '26
So you’re telling me if I made a brachio regurgitate a high load missile, the drop would be enough to detonate it?
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u/BipedalMcHamburger Aug 09 '26
The force calculation assumes that the entire mass decelerates simultaneously over 10cm, which is a very poor assumption for obvious reasons. I would expect the actual value to be an order of magnitude lower