So…on R4 this morning there was a segment which stated that the T-Rex had the strongest bite of any creature evah to walk the earth.

Seems like the force between two of it’s back teeth was like being sat on by a medium-sized elephant.

Anyone care to informe me of this in Standard Inrerwebz units, i.e. double decker busses/Wales?

Ta in advance

It’s about the same pressure as when I hit my thumb with a hammer last week.

It’s half the pressure applied when cracking walnuts between my butt cheeks.

Two medium sized elephants, that is pretty accurate actually

It’s the same weight as a 20th Century Boy, The Children of the Revolution and a White Swan all sat in a Jeepster.

African or Asian?

Well, I guess you could search online for the weight of elephants, buses, and you sound as if you’ll need a calculator too?

T. rex please. Let’s not ignore the basic rules of taxonomy.

the T-Rex had the strongest bite of any creature evah to walk the earth.

Seems like the force between two of it’s back teeth was like being sat on by a medium-sized elephant

The second statement doesn’t actually help quantify the first, seeing as people generally aren’t sat on by elephants in their day-to-day life. Plus, I suspect most people don’t know how much a small, medium or large elephant weighs anyway.

The nearest I can come to it is being sat on by my 5yo son.

How many of him make up a medium elephant, and I’ll extrapolate?

African or Asian?

Asian? When I was at school it was ‘Indian’. Is it now racist to refer to them as Indian?

I think they overcomplicated things with talk of elephants and the like – should have just said “T. Rex were 100% badass. End of”

T. rex was clearly not 100% badass. 97% at most, I would say. Look at those ‘arms’. Farcical. What happens if your average rex was to fall over on his/her face? couldn’t get up again. Easy meat for yer average Stegosaurus stenops.

Look at those ‘arms’. Farcical.

+1, I mean how do they get bits of dead animal out from between their teeth when their puny arms don’t reach?

no one got in t’s grill

true, true – T.rex would be crap in a boxing match due to rubbish arms and if it fell over it would be fecked.
My personal fave is Utahraptor 🙂

Imagine being a dinosaur, right. Gert big teeth and that? Armoured plates? Big old spikes?

No. You’re called Barry, and you’re from Dorking. DINOFAIL.

Barry

T.rex would be crap in a boxing match due to rubbish arms

Nonsense! It would just lean down and bite the opponents head off. Then eat the ref if he tried to disqualify it.
Champion of the World!
(Then it might struggle to get fights).

T.rex is so badass that when he falls over, the earth continues to fall with him, so he never actually falls over.

And those arms are for piano playing while biting the heads off of things at the same time.

Seriously guys…

About the same force as exerted by a mini hitting a tree.

Sorry.

T.rex is so badass that when he falls over, the earth continues to fall with him, so he never actually falls over.
That’s J. voigt, not T. rex

BBC fail.

I listened to this – classic example of dumbing down. Oh no, we can’t use an internationaly recognised unit like Newtons becasue no-one will understand.

Lets use a completely meaningless analogy instead 🙄

That’s J. voigt, not T. rex

2009 TDF says otherwise…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-payruR2-k[/video]

To be fair to the BBC the were just recycling a quote provided by Dr Karl Bates

“Those [simulated] muscles closed the jaw as they would in life and… we measured the force when the teeth hit each other,” Dr Bates explained to BBC Nature.

“The maximum forces we found – up at the [back] teeth – were between 30,000 and 60,000 Newtons,” he said.

“That’s equivalent to a medium-sized elephant sitting on you.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17159086

Well, I guess you could search online for the weight of elephants, buses, and you sound as if you’ll need a calculator too?

Not quite a calculator, but handy nonetheless: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/

July 2009. Voigt crashes into ground.

November 2009 El Salvador mudslides.
April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull erupts.
August 2010 Gansu mudslide.
March 2011 Tohoku tsunami.

Co-incidence? I think not.

November 2009 El Salvador mudslides.
April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull erupts.
August 2010 Gansu mudslide.
March 2011 Tohoku tsunami.

*claps*

Well played!