vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (26 May 2018 19:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Thomas Jones-Low (26 May 2018 20:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (26 May 2018 20:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (26 May 2018 20:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff shadow97218@xxxxxx (27 May 2018 10:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (27 May 2018 22:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Michael Houghton (27 May 2018 22:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Kelly St. Clair (27 May 2018 22:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (28 May 2018 15:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff shadow@xxxxxx (30 May 2018 07:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (30 May 2018 10:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Bruce Johnson (30 May 2018 16:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (28 May 2018 00:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Phil Pugliese (28 May 2018 11:38 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff David Shaw (26 May 2018 20:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Thomas RUX (26 May 2018 22:32 UTC)
Re: vargr muscles and stuff Rob O'Connor (27 May 2018 01:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Tim (27 May 2018 04:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] vargr muscles and stuff Timothy Collinson (27 May 2018 10:02 UTC)

Re: vargr muscles and stuff Rob O'Connor 27 May 2018 01:12 UTC

Tim Collinson wrote:
 > So would they, in fact, have an omotransversarius muscle which my limited
 > googling tells me is a muscle humans don't have but which dogs do.
 > And one that might reasonably be 'exercised'?

Looks like omotransversarius pulls the front leg forward (equivalent to
internal rotation of our arms at the shoulder) and allows the head and
neck to move down and out.

It can definitely be exercised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYAOuuvJTU

 > Is my calculation of a 40km horizon at height 200m on a size 5 world
(let's say radius 2500 miles)
 > about right?

d^2 = h^2 + 2Rh
h = 200m, R = 4000km: so  40km is right.
(you wrote d^2 = h^2 + 2 * R^2 * h, but didn't square R, so you got the
right answer)

 > I needed to name some TL4 explosives (on Pysadi, harvesting howood)
and came up with
 > quadroglycerine - it was supposed to be a sort of homage to triticale
being turned into
 > quadrotriticale for Star Trek's Trouble With Tribbles episode.  But
is the nature of
 > glycerine such that that's just completely ridiculous?

 From the perspective of a biochemist, yes as glycerine is a three
carbon compound which you can't nitrate four times with tech level 4
chemistry, if at all.

Call it howoodite - it's a locally sourced improvised explosive
containing a mixture of barely stable nitrated compounds.

Rob O'Connor