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To directly answer your question, @OriginalGriff: NO!
Here's scientific proof the the cat had not The Force:
Saber-Toothed Cat Had Wimpy Bite ~ article link[^]
"For all its reputation, Smilodon fatalis (saber-toothed tiger) had a wimpy bite," said study team member Stephen Wroe, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales.
Wroe, lead author Colin McHenry of the University of Newcastle and colleagues used fossils to digitally reconstruct the skulls of a Smilodon and a lion (Panthera leo).
"We simulated the forces you might expect if each one was taking large prey," McHenry said. The "computerized crash tests" showed if the prey was still on its feet and struggling, the saber-tooth's skull didn't hold up to the associated forces, while the lion's skull did fine.
McHenry likens these forces to a person chomping down on a raging bull. "Imagine biting onto something like a bull at a rodeo while it's trying to buck you off," McHenry told LiveScience. "Imagine the forces that would go through your skull as it's trying to throw you off. The lion skull actually copes with those [forces] really well, but the saber-cat skull doesn't."
The results show the saber-toothed cat had a less-powerful bite compared with the lion, which the scientists suggest is partially due to Smilodon's relatively small lower jaw (a feature that makes space for the cat's lengthy sabers).
modified 4-Jan-16 12:49pm.
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Raw power is the Dark Side, the Force is the subtle version.
Sabre tooth tigers probably used their teeth in much the same way that cat do now - to sever the spinal cord rather than bite through the whole neck, or through bone.
Watch how a cat kills a mouse and there isn't a deep powerful bite, it's a small puncture to paralyze the victim.
Watch a dog, and it's shorter, blunter teeth are used to bite and tear instead.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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While, yes, Raw Power of the Dark Side was employed, The Force was never with the Cat.
Thus, with no Force, there would never be a LightSabre-Toothed Cat!
(more from the article...)
Kill style
In order to avoid a butt-whipping but still come away with a meal, the giant cat must have had a different killing style than lions.
"Smilodon was an awesome beast, and what it lacked in bite force it more than made up for elsewhere," Wroe said.
They suggest Smilodon used its powerful forelimbs and oversized claws to take down a prey and restrain the animal before deploying its devastating canine teeth.
"The saber-cat had an immensely powerful body, perfect for wrestling large prey to the ground, and our models show that it needed to do this before trying a bite," McHenry explained. "Killing was more likely applied to the prey's throat, because it is easier to restrain the prey this way. Once the bite was done, the prey would have died almost instantly."
The result would be an ambush followed by a quick kill, the researchers say. In contrast, lions often hold a bite for many minutes to suffocate their large prey.
The Dark Side always got a butt-whipping regardless of how much Raw Power it invoked.
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This is a leap year so we all get an extra day at work (for free).
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That's it - I'm going back to bed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You shouldn't leave it before 10 in any case ...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you spend ~4mins. more per day sleeping it will make up for that extra day, unless you just want to get it out of the way now.
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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That's nothing - in the Jewish calendar there is an extra month this year (for free too)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oy vey!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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That extra day, 29 Feb, Monday, being a meeting day, is ...
... a paid holiday in the office
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My brother will be happy - he gets a birthday this year
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Is he old enough to be allowed into the pub yet?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It will be his 13th
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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It gets worse, Christmas and New Year are in weekends too...
I'm starting to feel sick and it feels like I'll need a full year to recover...
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installed.
Seems ok; miss a few Win7 bits and bobs but not enough to revert. Took about an hour from start to finish and then I blatted Windows.old - no going back without a full install!
I both love and hate Edge. I love the clean interface though not noticed any great speed increase. However, I like to see all of my bookmarks pinned to the left. There appears to be no way to do this in Edge. The favorites sidebar is there but will not persist and can't be dragged. Shame - I'll stay with IE11 until they fix it.
I have noticed that start up seems slower than Win7 bit not really a big deal.
Overall, so far, so good. Now to put it on the laptop and see what happens!!!
Happy new year to you all.
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Slower than Win7 ouch, I went to Win8.1 for the speed, seems like I'll still have to wait for SP#/Win10.1 until getting it.
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BuggyTimes wrote: Slower than Win7 Not for me. It's way faster than any other windows I've ever had. Boots very quickly. Logs in very quickly.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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According to my findings it is slower on power on, but much faster in coming out of sleep...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Did you update from Win7/8 or a new installation?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Upgraded.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Seems a bit faster to start than 7/8 for me too; although the before/after times are dominated by the mobo posting so it's almost a moot point.
I ran into two snags when I upgraded last week. I cleared both up the same day; but one was something that scuttled my initial 7 to 8 upgrade attempt. Issue 1 was just that my ethernet drivers didn't persist across the upgrade. A quick download via wifi and that was good to go.
The second was fun, I was getting the open with dialog pop up a few times an hour with the invalid path "C:\Program". A very late reply to a question I posted about a year ago on SuperUser[^] sent me on the right path. Although since the broken scheduled task wasn't on the list of invalid/obsolete ones I explicitly deleted I wonder if there's a cache hidden somewhere that's still got a trace of the bad one somewhere...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I have noticed that start up seems slower than Win7 Wasn't it supposed to be more "lightweight" than Win7? How's the perceived speediness once it has started up in comparison to Win7?
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Happy new year to you all Happy new year to you too!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I have noticed that start up seems slower than Win7 bit not really a big deal.
What does your start up look like? I mean I have minimal start up services and it works faster than W7 for same set up.
For edge, everything looks so small. I am currently at 125% zoom (it should be 25% zoom, right?). Same is with chrome too.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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From what I understoodR. Giskard Reventlov wrote: installed. will soon becomeR. Giskard Reventlov wrote: installed.
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