Are we sure they could vomit?
They did the math.
Submitted 4 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zip2@feddit.uk 4 months ago
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
not sure, but 2 seconds is thinking about living animals tells us that that would probably bend over first.
Zip2@feddit.uk 4 months ago
And 2 more seconds and you start wondering how many pints it would take.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe not projectile vomit but they absolutely could reverse peristalsis just like any vertebrate. Giraffes chew their cud while upright after all. Peristalsis is agnostic to how high it’s pumping, since there is no functional loss in strength.
Gordon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
they absolutely could reverse peristalsis just like any vertebrate.
AFAIK Horses cannot vomit, and I also was told that mice and rats cannot vomit.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A question I never thought I’d want to have the answer to.
Do birds vomit?
Shaggy1050@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They feed their young through regurgitation so they do have the ability!
Binette@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
What’s even scarier is that it used that amount of strength to bring the vomit up
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 4 months ago
“Today, we discovered the first time ‘Eastbound and Down’ was heard, coming from an unlikely place…”
oce@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Is friction really negligible here?
xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 months ago
It’s probably pretty important. This paper on the terminal velocity of water droplets shows an upper limit of around 10m/s. And terminal velocity is reached in under 6m.
oce@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Thank you for looking it up.
towerful@programming.dev 4 months ago
Even at 10m/s, thats 41kN of force.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But they were herbivores…? The image shows bones in there
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Those are the bones of its victims. Raptors dread the vom bomb
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
I was wondering if they were implying the force would be enough to kill smaller dinosaurs?
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 months ago
The idea is that the impact would have killed a little dromaeosaur
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe, but it’s weird they drew it as nothing left but bones though
konalt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Clearly they threw the bones up since they’re not meant to eat them
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Honestly not that bad, tbh. You can easily beat those numbers with a hit from a car.
Steve@startrek.website 4 months ago
Not during the Jurassic period, they didn’t have cars.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Just commenting on the deadliness of 68,600 N in terms of a modern equivalent. People survive cars, raptors might survive vomit.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Fred Flintstone begs to differ
ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Thats also roughly the amount of force the Brachiosaurus would need to exert with just stomach and throat muscles to get the vomit up that high. I think they wouldn’t be able to do that and would constantly get heart burn in their 30’ esophagus.
Much more likely is that they lowered their heads in humiliation and let the vomit slide all that way out.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I too vomit while standing up at my full height.
Phineaz@feddit.org 4 months ago
Ye, they would probably bow down to vomit. Would be interesting to see how giraffes do it.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Puking giraffes, sounds like a band name
uranibaba@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I found a youtube video explaining that giraffes have four stomachs. They vomit from the forth to the second or first, and very rarely does it come up. youtu.be/7EXnc8SXWV8?t=70
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Owls (owl pellets) or even snakes and lizards would probs be more accurate imo
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s an impressive superpower.
Looking harmless and then suddenly violently puke like a fire hose stream on some poor bankrobbers or something.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 4 months ago
I call it “stand and deliver”