Are we sure they could vomit?
They did the math.
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zip2@feddit.uk 2 days ago
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
not sure, but 2 seconds is thinking about living animals tells us that that would probably bend over first.
Zip2@feddit.uk 2 days ago
And 2 more seconds and you start wondering how many pints it would take.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
A question I never thought I’d want to have the answer to.
Do birds vomit?
Shaggy1050@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They feed their young through regurgitation so they do have the ability!
Binette@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
What’s even scarier is that it used that amount of strength to bring the vomit up
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 2 days ago
“Today, we discovered the first time ‘Eastbound and Down’ was heard, coming from an unlikely place…”
oce@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Is friction really negligible here?
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 days 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 2 days ago
Thank you for looking it up.
towerful@programming.dev 2 days ago
Even at 10m/s, thats 41kN of force.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But they were herbivores…? The image shows bones in there
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Those are the bones of its victims. Raptors dread the vom bomb
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
I was wondering if they were implying the force would be enough to kill smaller dinosaurs?
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 days ago
The idea is that the impact would have killed a little dromaeosaur
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe, but it’s weird they drew it as nothing left but bones though
konalt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Clearly they threw the bones up since they’re not meant to eat them
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Honestly not that bad, tbh. You can easily beat those numbers with a hit from a car.
Steve@startrek.website 2 days ago
Not during the Jurassic period, they didn’t have cars.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 days 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 2 days ago
Fred Flintstone begs to differ
ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 days 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 2 days ago
I too vomit while standing up at my full height.
Phineaz@feddit.org 2 days ago
Ye, they would probably bow down to vomit. Would be interesting to see how giraffes do it.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Puking giraffes, sounds like a band name
uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
Owls (owl pellets) or even snakes and lizards would probs be more accurate imo
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 days 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 2 days ago
I call it “stand and deliver”