Exciting idea for Zwift development!

Watching the Jurassic Park movies before they disappear from Amazon & had a fantastic idea!

Some routes already have a peaceful dinosaur presence. How cool would it be to have a T Rex or Velociraptor run out and give chase as you cycle by? That could maybe be the start of a sprint segment where you hear “HAMMERTIME” & if you are too slow, next words will be: “I’m toast”! :joy:

Apparently the T-Rex was notoriously slow (10-12mph) to the point your average cyclist could easily outrun it.

How people know this I’m not sure. Not every T-Rex is the same a bit like me and Usain Bolt are both human only he can run twice as fast as me.

Therefore watch out for the odd T-Rex trying to do strange actions with his diddy little arms.

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something to do with how much muscle it would need/could have had to move considering it weighed like 6 tonnes or something.

wonder what w/kg it’d be able to do!

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The irony being that tyrannosaurs’ physiques quite closely resemble many pro cyclists.

:blush:

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That assumes we’re on pavement!

One day that sloth is going to fall from the tree in the Jungle and grab my wheel, I just know it!

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Before or after the wolf at the top of the climb in Makuri eats you?

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I always thought I was someone who paid the most attention to everything on the routes and all the little furry creature details.

Now I’m kind of terrified to be hearing about this.

I plead ignorance is bliss :laughing:

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I think…
to move 6000kg at 16kmh, it takes 59259.3 joules. (Possibly in a vacuum though. Kinetic Energy Calculator )
If a T. rex step takes 2 seconds, that’s 29,629.65 watts.
That’s 4.938w/kg.
Surprisingly close to a strong human…

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As long as I don’t find them in C category, I’m good

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I’d really like to some Mech vs Kaiju battles somewhere in Makuri… where is the Mt. Fuji climb with a battle at the top to watch as you climb ever closer to the action?

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Sorry this is a garbage calculation.

Well that brought the mood down.

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As someone whose first computer was a ZX81, I would be unhappy if the in-game message was anything other than “Rex is hunting you”.

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You must have a couple of years on me as i was a Spectrum 48k child.

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Yeah, had several of those too. Still have a +2 in fact.

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