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>“What if the asteroid hadn’t happened?” Herculano-Houzel said, referring to the cosmic collision thought to have driven most dinosaurs to extinction. “That’s a
by StanislavPetrov 4y ago
>“What if the asteroid hadn’t happened?” Herculano-Houzel said, referring to the cosmic collision thought to have driven most dinosaurs to extinction. “That’s a whole other world that would have been terrifying.”
I wonder if they would have developed nuclear weapons and dropped them on their fellow dinosaurs. Terrifying!
- whycome 4y agoWhat if they developed a type of, um, space-based weapon. Where it would take large chunks of rock and nudge them towards targeted areas of the earth. Except it didn't go to plan
- rcarmo 4y agoWorse, imagine if by some trick of convergent evolution they had invented JavaScript as well…
- ithkuil 4y agoI wonder what their Mozilla logo would have been
- deafpolygon 4y agoA picture of an ape.
- andrewflnr 4y agoA trilobite. Hey, it could even kind of fit in a circle.
- zxcvbn4038 4y agoI guess he hadn’t watched Dr Who ;) People don’t give animals enough credit. Cows are considered stupid animals but spend some time with them and you’ll find they have personalities, moods, preferences, friendships (certain cows like to be near each other), foes (certain cows do not like to be near each other), if they expect to be fed at a certain time of day they get fidgety and vocal if your late, etc. Crows can use tools, solve problems, and have altruistic behaviors.