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New Analysis Shows Dinosaurs Not As Heavy As Previously Believed.
Cognitive Dissident writes "Discovery.com has an article on a new study using computer modeling to estimate the actual amount of flesh needed to cover the skeletons of dinosaurs. Based on a comparison with modern animals, it indicates that these animals could have weighed dramatically less than has been previously estimated. 'A huge Brachiosaur, once thought to weigh 176,370 pounds, is now believed to have weighed 50,706 pounds.' That's only about two-and-a-half times the weight of a modern African elephant. If other evidence can be reconciled with this, many estimates of the ecosystems dinosaurs lived in will also have to be revised."
You'll love this then -- just go to google and type "50,706 lbs to kg". There, now you know a brachiosaurus might have have weighed roughly 22,999 kilograms. Since you didn't know kilograms and lbs could be converted, you might not know that 1 kg is approximately 2.2 lbs. I guess that's only useful if you want to hang out on US websites, watch US films, or read US books, but it might come in handy.
Keep up the good fight against other people doing things differently than the way you're used to. Internet message boards are a perfect place to make people change their minds by insulting them!