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Primates first appeared around 65 million years ago. The earliest dinosaurs arose over 200 million years ago. Therefore, it is possible that by about 130 mill
by edent 2y ago
Primates first appeared around 65 million years ago.
The earliest dinosaurs arose over 200 million years ago.
Therefore, it is possible that by about 130 million years ago, the dinosaurs would have reached our level of development. They could have detected the oncoming asteroid, built space ships, and left this planet. All while mammals were barely getting started.
This extremely likely scientific theory is explored in Hibbett, MJ's "Dinosaur Planet"
http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/dinosaurplanet/nindex.php http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/dinosaurplanet/nindex.php
- ajdude 2y agoThis is also pretty heavily explored in Voyager's Distant Origin episode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin
- arethuza 2y agoAs a wise man once said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"...
- edent 2y agoI think this is all the evidence you will need https://mjhibbett.bandcamp.com/track/the-theory-of-a-dinosaur-planet https://mjhibbett.bandcamp.com/track/the-theory-of-a-dinosau... The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction event occurred, as far as we know, Sixty five point five million years ago But even the interval of error in that estimated date Is longer than it took us humans to evolve from apes And if in that time we mammals managed to conquer space I believe the Dinosaurs could have done the same
- shiroiushi 2y agoPerhaps, but one big problem is the rocket equation: dinosaurs are generally very large compared to humans, so they'd need huge spaceships to carry them, and as we know, the rocket equation means you need far more fuel to lift an amount of mass to orbit. Perhaps only some smaller species of dinosaur evolved into an intelligent civilization.
- dannyobrien 2y agoAnd in Leonard Richardson's somewhat silly "Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs" http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/let-us-now-praise-awesome-dinosaurs/ http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/let-us-now-praise-awesome...
- dark-star 2y ago> extremely likely I think you misspelled "unlikely"...?
- edent 2y agoEr? Do you really think professional scientists would write an epic prog-rock musical about the dinosaur invasion of Norwich if they weren't extremely certain of their hypothesis?
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoThere is also a cave painting somewhere. Frankly an irrefutable set of evidence.
- Borrible 2y agoAnd in Cixin Liu’s short story "Devourer" they even come back to earth for a last visit... Of course, this has a back-story/history, see "Of Ants and Dinosaurs".