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