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TFA from RTFA


> from RTFA

which itself is from RTFM (manual), which was the catch-cry of early 90s irc and usenet tech newsgroups.


Wikipedia says a Pteranodon[0] might have weighed up to 200kg. I wonder if the different mix of gases in the atmosphere during the Cretaceous period made any difference to how much weight could be supported while flying.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon


Annoyingly, the wikipedia article was wrong, and mistakenly gave the figures for Quetzalcoatlus in that paragraph. Pteranodon weighed more like 20-30kg (I've edited it).

The constraint on the size of flying animals is launch, not flight. Pterosaurs could get bigger than birds because they used quadrupedal launch, meaning they could use their flight muscles during the initial leap.


I never cease to be amazed how damn _big_ dinosaurs were. The size comparison on the page for Quetzalcoatlus is seriously mind boggling - the thing was almost the size of a small plane!


In the sense that more oxygen was available to muscles, maybe. In any buoyancy or aerodynamics sense, the effect would be miniscule at best.


Similar story for my wife with Facebook. After our marriage several years ago, she wanted to change her last name. Facebook requested we upload a marriage certificate. She refused and has never tried again. Facebook does not need to be anyone's proof of identity.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930

(As a link)


Thanks! I didn't realize it wouldn't auto format as a link when I posted it, sorry about that.


No problems. Text in a submission does not get auto-formatted as a link. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc


I tend to solve that problem with either:

  <img alt={"Hello, " + place}/>
Or, for more complex interpolation:

  <img alt={`Hello, ${place}`}/>


Not OP, but I take it to mean that they flee to a tropical country with limited extradition laws.


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