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Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 100,000,000 years, at least 50 times as long as our species. Perhaps some dinosaurs were the most advanced species our planet
by jfactorial 2y ago
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 100,000,000 years, at least 50 times as long as our species. Perhaps some dinosaurs were the most advanced species our planet has ever seen.
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- lupusreal 2y agoSadly there's basically zero chance of that. We don't find dinosaur pottery sherds or cola bottles embedded in sedimentary rock anywhere.
- digging 2y agoThey lived so long ago, my understanding is such artifacts would be extremely unlikely to survive. We also haven't looked in that many places at that depth. I mean it's still quite unlikely though.
- Panzer04 2y agoIf bones survived, some advanced remnants would also survive, I would expect.
- roywiggins 2y agoWell, survived by turning into rocks: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossilsarchive/permin.html https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossilsarchive/permin.html
- EasyMark 2y agoGah, wrong comment responded to.
- digging 2y agoMaybe? Depends on what level of manufacturing and materials they achieved. Even then, not super likely. Statistically, bones don't survive that long :) It could just be a matter of time till we find a lucky break. (Again - probably not)
- Rebelgecko 2y agoI read a stat (maybe not true?) that we've only found around one dinosaur fossil for each 10,000 years that they existed. Maybe we just haven't found peak dino society yet- if you broke humanity down into one archaeological find per 10k years you probably wouldn't think we had much of a society either.
- notahacker 2y agoIf dinosaurs had changed their environment as much as humans, there would probably be more than the occasional fortuitously preserved corpse or footprint to find.
- Rebelgecko 2y agoMaybe dinosaurs were just more advanced when it came to building a society that coexisted with their environment
- hangsi 2y agoYeah, there should be some sort of world wide epoch shifting environmental change about 65 million years ago to show for it.
- notahacker 2y agoI'd be more impressed with a fossilized dinosaur port, motorway or garbage dump than a crater in the Gulf of Mexico tbf...
- JetSpiegel 2y agoWhat about all the oil and gas?
- lupusreal 2y agoMost of the time, dino bones don't fossilize. And we only find some small fraction of the small fraction that do. But with glass and ceramics the situation is different. Those are stable in almost all conditions, running water excepted. A beach will break down a coke bottle in a few years but if it lands just about anywhere else it has a high chance of lasting basically forever. If dinosaurs ever became like us, there should be a clear layer in the rock where they started throwing their trash on the ground.
- gitaarik 2y agoThey didn't make pottery but they had very intellectual conversations and some very good philosophers