how did they grow so big?

buhh duhhh faaaaaaart

- op

>>8943114

No shit nignog

Erf was smaller back then, before the comets hit, so gravity was weaker.

>>8943113
>isn't gravity supposed to make this impossible?
if the earth had less gravity, they could have been bigger

>>8943113
The average person isn't 8 meters tall retard

>>8943113
they ate their vegetables

>>8943113
>how did they grow so big?

very simple. first, we look at the two subjects being compared: dinosaurs and humans. let's establish some truths about these two beforehand.

dinosaurs = non-humans
non-humans = incapable of human thought

humans = capable of human thought
human thought = capacity for knowledge
knowledge = retained information

given the above, we are much closer to figuring out our problem. now, let's identify what it is we're measuring with regards to 'growing big'

upon examination, we can surmise that 'growing big' in this case refers to 'growing vertically'. so then why is it that dinosaurs pulled this off whereas humans, who are far more capable of 'knowledge', have not been nearly as successful? easy.

i call upon frodo's law to explain this, which dictates that while humanity is capable of retaining information, or 'learning', better than ANY other known organism on earth, it is the human subspecies known as "homo sapiens hobbitu" that is the exception to this rule.

thus we can finally prove the following:

dinosaurs = incapable of learning like a human
homo sapiens hobbitu (known colloquially as "manlets") = incapable of learning like a human

THEREFORE, i submit to you this: the ability to 'grow big' is NOT directly tied to 'human thought' whereas the ability to have 'human thoughts' IS tied to the ability to 'learn' (with frodo's law proving the only exception).

our final conclusion? the dinosaurs didn't necessarily "learn" to grow big.

it's just that manlets NEVER learn.

>>8943113
They took dat dere celltech

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So it's true. sci is full of morons. AskScience was right, I ought to go back there, eh, boys?

>>8943113
Gravity never made it impossible. Dinosaurs just had bone structures with column legs like elephants instead of sprawling legs like alligators. Animals tend not to grow like that these days since there isn't as much evolutionary pressure to grow large. The rough evolutionary trend that animals follow now is to be more mobile and/or social, which runs counter to size increases being the most viable survival strategy.

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>>8943342
pissed off midget in denial over frodo's law detected

>>8943113
2 main reasons

Way more CO2 back then which resulted in higher temperatures and more vegetation compared to today.

Therefore a large food surplus back then, so they grew bigger simply because they could maintain it. It also had the evolutionary benefit of being more resilient against carnivores. Probably resulted in an evolutionary cycle where both carnivores and herbivores kept growing to keep competing against each other.

What is the limit for humans without changing their skeletal structure? Every time I think I see the limit, there is some 7 ft tall basketball player who jumps higher and runs faster than everyone.

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>>8943397
>Way more CO2 back then which resulted in higher temperatures and more vegetation compared to today.

>dinosaurs at their highest level
>SJW hadrosaur beta-cucks start whining about MUH GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
>unreasonable regulations imposed
>dinosaur economy stumbles
>society overrun by Coelurosaurs the same hadrosaurs insisted were "misunderstood" and entitled to equal treatment
>narcissistic ceretopsians and sauropods start having less and less children, citing uncertainty
>entire ecosystem collapses

The asteroid was just God giving up on them.

>>8943342
ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. now go away, stupid retard.

>>8943137
t. manlet

>>8943342
Sub 6'5'' detected.

>>8943113
There was more air to breathe, so they got bigger. But they got too big and breathed all the air, which is why dragonflies are small today.

>>8943113
In the Jurassic Era earth was smaller and had less gravity.

>>8943113
For you.

there werent that many dinosaurs so it was quite easy for gravity to hold everything to the ground

>>8943215
>frodo's law

you cheeky cunt i had a giggle

>>8943397
>co2

wrong!

there was way more oxygen back then. the increased global temperatures was due to ocean currents

if we blocked off the gulf current flowing east between cuba and Florida. then the world would cool off. As less warm water flows north.

>>8943113
You have to remember that tons of meteorites fall to Earth every year. Over 65 million years, that adds up!

>Earth gravity is stronger know than it used to be.

>>8943113
Gravity was weaker back then due to the higher O2 concentration

>>8943113
Today, Oxygen takes up about 21% of the Earth's atmosphere.
Back when the dinosaurs walked the Earth it was over 30%. Respiring creatures which have more access to Oxygen have more chance of growing bigger. Hence the huge fossils.

>>8943113
eating their greens

Contrary to what most people have been saying here , I have studied palaeontology and the earths O2 levels are not drastically different to 80 million years ago or so, neither was earths gravity any weaker, in reality sauropods were very lightweight due to an extensive system of air sacs throughout the body and pneumatic bones, the neck itself took the same weight as an arm or leg. They are perfectly biomechanically possible, simple palaeontological research can answer this

>>8943113
OP thinks dinosaurs existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXzgeq1BuA&t=9s

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>>8943460
Shove a spike into your brain. You won't lose anything useful.