I'm so disilusioned....

Velociraptor Bad At Disemboweling

Scientists had long believed that Velociraptors used the curved appendage to disembowel prey.

But a robotic model showed that the claw was used in a fatal embrace to hang on to the victims, Phil Manning, from the University of Manchester, and colleagues report in the current issue of Biology Letters.

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Made of steel, aluminium, carbon fiber and Kevlar, the robotic limb featured a hydraulic system to control movement and mimicked the kick that a 20-kilogram (44-pound) Velociraptor might have produced.

Impact on pig carcasses at both low and high speed contact only produced small, round puncture wounds that reached a depth of about 30-40 millimeter (1 to 1.5 inches).

"It seems highly unlikely that wounds of this depth would have posed a danger to the vital organs of a large herbivorous dinosaur, though they would obviously be fatal to small prey," the researchers wrote.

I want a job building robotic limbs to attack pig carcases....

msbelle, do you not cherish me?

hmm, I care deeply, love, but I don't know if I have enough cherish for 2.

Whoa.

you are off the list for that, missy.

Next time you wake up and we are gone, it WILL be the rapture and, since you're off my list, you'll be Left Behind.

I'm still on the list, right?

Also, I just got to the very end of Season 2 of Alias, and can I just say, WTF?

I know the truth is hard to hear sometimes. I care enough to give it to you though and not just lie. It's much more a reflection of my stunted emotional state that I can't feel more for people.

If you watched Starting Over, you'd know, like TJ, sometimes truth is about ego and not about love.

HA! Is that the Syd is dead one? Or the 2 years one?

Two years.

Please. Don't get me started about stunted emotional states and inability to care. That's so my gig.

Though my list is where you don't want to be. It's mostly got students on.