dinosaurs

cm1179 · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:26

if you think about it, how weird is it that they were on this earth way before and way longer than us and if we had never discovered and fossils or preserved bodies, we wouldn't even have known about it.

iNPUt · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:28

Wouldn't be werid because we would have never would have known. But realistically its not like we wouldn't of ever found a fossil..

JBuk · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:29

Put the weed away and go to bed tbh

qqg3 · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:29

Thread has potential.

Vita · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:32

So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.

Doohickey · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:32

cm1179 said:
if you think about it, how weird is it that they were on this earth way before and way longer than us and if we had never discovered and fossils or preserved bodies, we wouldn't even have known about it.

So if I can paraphrase: if we had never found any evidence of dinosaurs, we would never have known that they existed.

That is truly profound.

cm1179 · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:36

Doohickey said:
So if I can paraphrase: if we had never found any evidence of dinosaurs, we would never have known that they existed.

That is truly profound.

so, there's a chance there could have been something before dinosaurs which we have not and may never find

Nitefly · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:36

cm1179 said:
if you think about it, how weird is it that they were on this earth way before and way longer than us and if we had never discovered and fossils or preserved bodies, we wouldn't even have known about it.

Indeed, it is pretty amazing :cool:

Not sure it's worthy of a thread though

PardonTheWait · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:40

Dinosaurs were actually a very high-tech race, but all their technology was made out of biodegradable materials, so I can't prove it.

Very frustrating.

turbotoaster · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:41

Vita said:
So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.

im sorry, but LOL at that, just watch the documentary called the flintstones, you can see great scientific interactions there.

Cosimo · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:44

qqg3 said:
Thread has potential.

So did the dinosaurs and look what happened to them.

D3lirious · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:47

Bizarely I was thinking about this the other day - how there have been so many amazing forms of life over the lifespan of the Earth, and we'll never get to witness more than about 0.001% of them (or whatever the figure may be).

Deadbeat · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:49

Vita said:
So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.

Humans had fire.

That's why humans are everywhere, and dinosaurs are fossils.

Felix Da Housecat · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:56

Vita said:
So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.

Errr they didn't, Avec Dino and friends were on earth a long long time before we ever took that giant leep out of the swamp.

GreatAuk · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:56

I watched a TV program about what would happen if all the humans suddenly died, and all trace that we ever had more than flint tool would disappear remarkably quickly... Dinosaurs could well have had cars and computers, but there wouldn't be any evidence of it... Evidence of things that happened longer ago than yesterday disappears pretty fast!

cm1179 · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:58

GreatAuk said:
I watched a TV program about what would happen if all the humans suddenly died, and all trace that we ever had more than flint tool would disappear remarkably quickly... Dinosaurs could well have had cars and computers, but there wouldn't be any evidence of it... Evidence of things that happened longer ago than yesterday disappears pretty fast!

what about the pyramids or other notable structures?

cm1179 · 4 Mar 2010 at 22:58

Vita said:
So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.

was this for real?

GreatAuk · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:46

cm1179 said:
what about the pyramids or other notable structures?

Well, I believe that most modern buildings will be collapsed after 250yrs, and completely gone in a few thousand. Quite a lot of places would get buried, and when left unchecked, vegetation is very destructive. Apparently the pyramids and other such giant structures would outlast most other buildings, but eventually they too will get eroded or whatever... after all, they've only been around for about 7,00yrs (?) so far, say another 100k and I imagine they would look just like lumps of rock, a few more k's and not even that... quite scary really to think how quickly traces of modern civilization will disappear. (although our bits and pieces on the moon will be around for aaaages).

http://www.history.com/shows/life-after-people - that was the programme, I don't know if you can watch them though.

Andelusion · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:50

GreatAuk said:
Dinosaurs could well have had cars and computers...

.. *glazes over imagining*...

Sorry what?

cheets64 · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:53

Amazing to think 65 million years ago, they walked and ate, chilled out and make sexy time and then BAM

GreatAuk said:
I watched a TV program about what would happen if all the humans suddenly died, and all trace that we ever had more than flint tool would disappear remarkably quickly... Dinosaurs could well have had cars and computers, but there wouldn't be any evidence of it... Evidence of things that happened longer ago than yesterday disappears pretty fast!

Shame the didn't pioneer space flight, One small step for Raptor, one giant leap for Dinokind.