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Post by mrrotten on Jun 14, 2011 21:02:24 GMT -5
So if dinosaurs survived whatever wiped them out, do you think humans would of evolved to the point we are today? Or would we have evolved at all?
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jun 14, 2011 21:07:52 GMT -5
No. When dinosaurs died out, mammals swooped in and filled the missing niches. If non-bird dinosaurs still existed, mammal evolution would have taken a different path, and the likelihood of that path resulting in humans as well is nearly impossible.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 21:17:47 GMT -5
Probably not, kinda scary to think about it too. Everything just miraculously falling into place for humans to live. Even if one thing was changed, history could have been altered as we know it.
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Post by hassanchop on Jun 14, 2011 21:41:05 GMT -5
To quote Perry Saturn: What if the dinosaurs were still alive? They would be crapping all over the place like a bunch of 'Filthy Animals'. Speaking of the Filthy Animals tonight we exterminate the Filthy Animals just like we did the dinosaurs. Now I know what you're thinking, man wasn't alive when the dinosaurs were, but all I am saying is 'what if'.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jun 14, 2011 22:38:34 GMT -5
Humans would all be living underground and be pasty and white due to lack of sunlight, while dinosaurs would have evolved into super reptiles that rule over the surface of the Earth. This is all just an educated guess, mind you.
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Post by TCA on Jun 14, 2011 23:36:44 GMT -5
I thought dinosaurs still exist? Isn't the crocodile a dinosaur?
As for the bigger ones like T-Rexes I'm sure we would have just put them in an amusement park, what could possibly go wrong?
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 14, 2011 23:40:45 GMT -5
I thought dinosaurs still exist? Isn't the crocodile a dinosaur? As for the bigger ones like T-Rexes I'm sure we would have just put them in an amusement park, what could possibly go wrong? Crocodiles are prehistoric survivors but are not related to dinosaurs, whose living decedents are birds. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Jun 14, 2011 23:41:11 GMT -5
To quote Perry Saturn: What if the dinosaurs were still alive? They would be crapping all over the place like a bunch of 'Filthy Animals'. Speaking of the Filthy Animals tonight we exterminate the Filthy Animals just like we did the dinosaurs. Now I know what you're thinking, man wasn't alive when the dinosaurs were, but all I am saying is 'what if'. Dammit I miss Saturn. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jun 15, 2011 0:19:40 GMT -5
I thought dinosaurs still exist? Isn't the crocodile a dinosaur? As for the bigger ones like T-Rexes I'm sure we would have just put them in an amusement park, what could possibly go wrong? Crocodiles are prehistoric survivors but are not related to dinosaurs, whose living decedents are birds. Well, most people would say that birds are dinosaurs, not that they're just descendants. Of course, this is a huge area of debate right now, but the current consensus, which most data seems to support, tends to be that birds are dinosaurs. Crocodiles and dinosaurs were both archosaurs, with crocodiles splitting off of the lineage fairly early.  |
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 15, 2011 0:35:03 GMT -5
Crocodiles are prehistoric survivors but are not related to dinosaurs, whose living decedents are birds. Well, most people would say that birds are dinosaurs, not that they're just descendants. Of course, this is a huge area of debate right now, but the current consensus, which most data seems to support, tends to be that birds are dinosaurs. Crocodiles and dinosaurs were both archosaurs, with crocodiles splitting off of the lineage fairly early. In that case I would still be right. Birds are still the decedents of dinosaurs, just as you an I are are decedents from Homo Erectus. |
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Post by H-Fist on Jun 15, 2011 1:06:29 GMT -5
Depends on what the actual extinction event or events was/were. Climate-changing meteoric impact, for example, likely would have had similar effects if you were to re-run the event thousands of times. But if there was an epidemic or set of epidemics that killed dinosaurs off over millions of years, re-running that event might lead to different results - changes in disease distribution, evolutionary responses toward immunity, etc. In the former scenario, dinosaurs surviving in a more-authentic form seems to be unlikely in most events, while the minor changes might have had greater effects on mammals and the future. The latter scenario - disease as a contributor to extinction - has more variables, and it also potentially leaves the earth in a condition not necessarily conducive to large bipedal ground apes.
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Post by Glitch on Jun 15, 2011 2:29:09 GMT -5
This makes me want for Terra Nova to debut sooner.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jun 15, 2011 7:32:58 GMT -5
To quote Perry Saturn: What if the dinosaurs were still alive? They would be crapping all over the place like a bunch of 'Filthy Animals'. Speaking of the Filthy Animals tonight we exterminate the Filthy Animals just like we did the dinosaurs. Now I know what you're thinking, man wasn't alive when the dinosaurs were, but all I am saying is 'what if'. Exterminate the Filthy Animals? What did Billy Kidman ever do to you? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2011 7:36:58 GMT -5
We would have evolved even more badass as we would have had to come up with something to battle dinosaurs with. I'm guessing we would have developed nuclear sneezes or something equally as awesome.
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Post by mrrotten on Jun 15, 2011 14:56:46 GMT -5
If the dinosaurs didn't die off, I think we would've had to have a nomadic lifestyle, staying probably with the hunter/gather lifestyle we originally had, because any settlements we had probably would be destroyed by the larger creatures, not to mention having to worry about the predator ones always hunting us.
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jun 15, 2011 15:06:05 GMT -5
they did survive... they're just trapped in a parallel world due to a magical meteor... and they banned plumbers.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jun 15, 2011 17:03:38 GMT -5
I'm more curious to know what the dominant species would have been if the Permian-Triassic extinction event never occurred.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jun 15, 2011 17:31:59 GMT -5
HAHAHAHAHA you really think homo sapiens would even be out of the TREES, if dinosaurs evolved into something like us?  ?? "dinopians" as i would call them  ..... would see a stupid protomonkey junping up and down looking like a complete prat ..... and RIP IT'S HEAD OFF!!!!!! rivers of blood my friend ..... rivers of MONKEY BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!! |
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..... would see a stupid protomonkey junping up and down looking like a complete prat ..... and RIP IT'S HEAD OFF!!!!!!