Lawyer consumption rates of Tyrannosaurus rex

A science question inspired by the scene in Jurassic Park in which the T rex ate the lawyer:

How many lawyers would it take to properly feed a captive T rex for an entire year?

The answer: if the T rex is warm-blooded it will need to eat 292 lawyers a year. If cold-blooded, only 73 lawyers.

From The Complete Dinosaur, edited by James Orville Farlow, M. K. Brett-Surman.

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Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 23, 2018
Category: Law | Science | Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures

Comments

I don't think a T. Rex would survive no matter how many lawyers it ate: There's no substance in any of them.

Posted by KDP on 01/23/18 at 04:12 PM

Then the important question becomes: How many T. Rex must we genetically reconstruct to rid ourselves of all the frivolous lawsuits?

Posted by Virtual on 01/24/18 at 11:11 AM

Not enough.

Posted by Richard Bos on 01/26/18 at 08:18 AM

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