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- From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Subject: Re: Muscle tissue from mouse to sauropod
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.145357@IASTATE.EDU>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <243@fedfil.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:53:57 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <243@fedfil.UUCP>, news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
- > We've seen one poster claim that reptile muscle is twice as good as ours,
- > and that this has been proven more dynamically than possible via microscope
- > test. I've got three problems with this.
- >
- > 1. I don't picture any way for this to be done. I don't picture anybody
- > training a crock to do curls or benchpresses, for instance.
-
- I don't have any picture for how electron spin works: so therefore quantum
- physics must be wrong!
-
- ted, please do not site your lack of imagination as a limitation on the world
- at large. It doesn't work that way.
-
- Let me draw the picture: Locate a muscle in a reptile and a muscle in a mammal
- that are about the same size. Remove the muscles (after the animal is dead of
- course) and anchor them to scales. Apply an electric current to the muscle, and
- take a reading off the scale.
-
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