dinosaurs

dinosaurs first landed on the moon in 50million years BC. the only reason dinosaur experts know what colours they are and what they ate is because of the moon landings.
 
*sighs* The fossils have been planted by God to test the faith of the believers. Wake up people GOD RULEZZ!!!1!!
 
GreatAuk said:
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.
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Oh, I missed this gem in my skimming! Legendary thread is approaching legendary status.
 
Vita said:
So how did humans survive with dinosaurs.
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They didn't. Dinosaurs were extinct long before humans existed.

Off the top of my head, I think there's a 60 million year gap between the last dinosaurs and the first humans.
 
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!
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Cities, hard road systems, etc, etc, don't disappear very quickly. There would be evidence other than stone tools for a very long time.

While it's possible that dinosaurs had advanced technology that time has removed all traces of, I think you're wrong to consider it likely. Brain size makes it very unlikely that any dinsosaurs had much intelligence...unless you're also arguing that they had extra brains distributed around their body in some manner that would leave no fossil trace. Which is possible, I suppose. Then there's the tool use issue. Technology is essentially highly developed tool use. There's no evidence of any dinosaurs using tools and it doesn't fit their physiology for them to have the kind of extensive tool use that's needed for development to the level of cars and computers.

It's also possible that dinosaurs were magic users and fought a great war against the beholders. Or that dinosaurs were organic robots created by aliens and ancient Earth was a giant BattleMech game arena for those aliens.

Many things are possible, but lack of evidence for something is not a good reason to think that thing is likely to be true.
 
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
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No it wouldn't.

Our cities and other solid achievements would remain far more prevalent than our chunks of flint for the rest of time.

Dinosaurs did not have computers.
 
He is right, weathering and plant growth tear even the strongest of buildings to pieces within a few hundreds of years, the only reason they stay ok is because they're maintained.
Before you say what about the pyramids etc, that is because they are in a hot, dry low salt area, and as such moss and plants haven't taken hold, however if we weren't maintaining them now, they wouldn't last much longer, i,e the nose falling of recently.
 
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ChroniC said:
He is right, weathering and plant growth tear even the strongest of buildings to pieces within a few hundreds of years, the only reason they stay ok is because they're maintained.
Before you say what about the pyramids etc, that is because they are in a hot, dry low salt area, and as such moss and plants haven't taken hold, however if we weren't maintaining them now, they wouldn't last much longer, i,e the nose falling of recently.
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Err what?

Nobody is expecting everything to be standing up and shiney in 50 million years time, but you cant suggest that the shear amount of rock and stone somewhere like New York won't be there after that amount of time (assuming it doesn't sink to the bottom of the ocean/collide with another continent etc). I'm sure if we were to leave this planet and come back in millions of years time, the sites of cities would be littered with stone that has been manipulated by humans.
 
I can't remember the time frame the program gave, but he is right.

They said with a period without humans, the world would get to a state where there would be no evidence of us what so ever.

Was a very good program actually.
 
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.
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Well you're in for a hell of a mindfunk then because a fossil round recently dates approx 10million years BEFORE the earliest previously recorded dinosaur(s).

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Angilion said:
They didn't. Dinosaurs were extinct long before humans existed.

Off the top of my head, I think there's a 60 million year gap between the last dinosaurs and the first humans.
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More recent findings unearth accurate figures!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107114420.htm

The trackways show that large tetrapods, up to three metres in length, inhabited the marine intertidal zone during the early Middle Devonian some 395 million years ago.

"This means not that not only tetrapods but also elpistostegids originated much earlier than we thought, because the position of elpistostegids as evolutionary precursors of tetrapods is not in doubt, and so they must have existed at least as long," says Per Ahlberg.

The elpistostegids, it seems, were not at all a short-lived transitional stage but must have existed alongside their descendants the tetrapods for at least 10 million years. The environment is also a major surprise: almost all previous scenarios for the origin of tetrapods have placed this event in a freshwater setting and have associated it with the development of land vegetation and a terrestrial ecosystem.

"Instead, our distant ancestors may first have left the water in order to feed on stranded marine life left behind by the receding tide," says Per Ahlberg.
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