Hold on to your butts, the age old debate over whether a human could beat a T-Rex in arm wrestling has been squashed by Jack Conrad, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. From Popular Science:

“First, we’re assuming that the T. rex won’t just eat the person, right?” asks Jack Conrad.

Yes, Mr. Conrad. A question could not be more hypothetical.

“There’s no chance that any human alive could win…The bicep alone—and this is a conservative estimate—could curl 430 pounds. Not even Lou Ferrigno in his prime would stand a chance…They didn’t just have big biceps. Their chest and shoulder muscles were huge too. They had huge arms and shoulders—bigger than my leg. They had the strength to rip a human’s arm right out of its socket.”

I love how much this dude loves the strength of the T-Rex. But Jack Conrad has probably never heard of Matthias Schlitte, the German arm wrestling champ with an arm even Rob Liefeld would find unfathomable. The picture below is 100% not doctored. Dude could snap a T-Rex arm out of its socket like it was made from Purdue.

Case closed.

PS: This news story hits close to home as my high school graduating class of 2000 walked off the field to the theme from Jurassic Park. My algebra professor, Mrs. Westra, tried to convince the principal not to let me and my homie Dave Brocker walk because she was afraid we would pull some kind of stunt. Suck it, Westra! I work in a cubicle now!

- Oh Mars