Simone Conti

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Simone Conti

Simone Conti

@engineer_dino

PhD student at @POLIMI and UNL

Katılım Eylül 2019
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
Today we know a little more about ostriches 🦤 (dodo as placeholder waiting for the proper one). Check how the bones of these amazing animals are adapted to run in the new paper published today in the journal Biomimetics: mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/1/…
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@raptordanny @skeletaldrawing In theory we may wave our arm so that the fingers reach the speed of sound, and even test it in a multibody computer simulation. Yet nobody is questioning the capability of our arms of not being able to achieve such speeds. Simulations can give any output, but must be interpreted
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@raptordanny @skeletaldrawing We can even knot a single fiberglass, while if we bend a glass of a window it definitely breaks. Yet both are made of the exact same material. The dimensions of the objects is the difference between the two behaviours. (3/4)
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
@raptordanny @skeletaldrawing Even if the simulation would allow it, the soft tissues would not. Then someone may say that whips are made of soft tissues as well. Correct. But the dimensions of the sauropod tail and a whip are different. In a certain way we can take fiberglass as a example. (2/4)
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
@raptordanny @skeletaldrawing Great! Being skeptical is always good to make science progres. Though the multibody simulation is one part of the paper, it may be the visual part of it, but the stress resistance of the soft tissues is what broke the hypothesis. (1/4)
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
@DoubleBeam Thank you @DoubleBeam ! Your work as a reviewer has been really appreciated, and your suggestions greatly refined the manuscript
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Cary Woodruff@DoubleBeam·
I personally don't buy the 'tactile communication' hypothesis, but for defense, display (intra/interspecific), or even passive movement (tail moving/wiggling from walking or the counter movement from the sweeping neck), it all =s a big moving thing that's going to get attention.
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Cary Woodruff@DoubleBeam·
So, a new sauropod paper is out that challenges the "supersonic sauropod" tail hypothesis. 1st & foremost a huge congrats to @engineer_dino & co! Simone (a student) not only did such a thorough study, but getting it into a high impact journal is such a great accomplishment! 🧵
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
Supersaurus (ex Dinheirosaurus) lourinhanensis, one long neck dinosaur related to Diplodocus. It is known from a partial vertebral column and few other remains found in Porto Dinheiro back in the late '80s. #phdinstagram.com/p/B4NKdQ7iJde/…
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
Lecture in the field today with students of Miragaia village. Speaking in front of people is always an opportunity to learn new stuff! Don't you already know Miragaia? Then go and dig out the internet the amazing… instagram.com/p/B3UnHXnIlb3/…
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Simone Conti@engineer_dino·
Não atirar foguetes antes da festa Don't throw fireworks before the party (First Portuguese sentence achieved)
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Today a new chapter begins: soon I'll start my PhD, about biomechanics of diplodocid sauropods 🦕 within polimi and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the aim to use their evolutionary features to develop models… instagram.com/p/B3G9dRzoHXN/…
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