Posted on 09/30/2012 9:34:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NASA's Kepler telescope scans the skies for 'habitable worlds' - but an American chemist has suggested the whole project might be a terrible idea.
Ronald Breslow suggests that life-forms based on slightly different amino acids and sugars could take the form of huge, ferocious dinosaurs that have evolved to have human-like intelligence and technologies.
'We would be better off not meeting them,' says Breslow, who claims that it was a stroke of luck that an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs on earth, leaving the field clear for mammals such as humans.
On other worlds, dinosaurs could have evolved into huge, intelligent warriors armed with hi-tech weaponry - but without losing their hunger for fresh meat.
'Of course,' Breslow says, 'Showing that it could have happened this way is not the same as showing that it did. An implication from this work is that elsewhere in the universe there could be life forms based on D-amino acids and L-sugars.
'Such life forms could well be advanced versions of dinosaurs, if mammals did not have the good fortune to have the dinosaurs wiped out by an asteroidal collision, as on Earth...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What if WE are the ancients that SF writers write about... that foundational race of sentients that (will) establish stargates and then sod off to who knows where...
It's just as likely it is us as anyone else.
That glorious, brilliant (skrreeech!!! WHATTHEHELL?). Well, us.
Think about that for a minute, and don't forget to write something profound in EBCDIC.
/johnny
I see we all are trying to imagine various saurts — that haven’t lost their hunger for fresh meat! No vegetarians here! — with dinosaur versions of “high tech weaponry”. *snort*
Well, when you only have ity bitty T-Rex arms..!.
GREAT point! Douglas Adams, a man ahead of his time, foretold the 2012 election.
OK, doc. They developed a high level of technology but never thought to cook their food to preserve it or destroy pathogens. I'm not seeing your family making any moves up the chain here.
A book I read about 10 years ago postulates that the dinosaur/reptilian overlords live under the earth and bred us as a slave race to do mining and other tasks for them or some such.
Anunnaki
I'm unable to paste in an image of Rex from Toy Story or Barney, but just pretend that I did.
We've killed off everything big except for a few. We've killed off lots of the small (passenger pigeon, dodo, etc).
We're the meanest, nastiest species in the solar system.
Venus is a burning wreck. Mars is a freezer.
We have opposable thumbs, gunpowder, the lever, and nukes.
Hell, we have carnivores for pets. Dogs, catz, ferrets etc...
I've killed and eaten an alligator that weighed twice what I do (not at one sitting).
I'm not seeing reptiles winning.
When we run out of other stuff to kill, we kill each other, just for practice.
/johnny
What’s “MIB”?
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”
And then there’s Romney...
Men in black, right?
bttt
/johnny
Yes. His big issue is the chemtrails.
They are called the Gorn and capt. Kirk beat them with good olde fashioned american ingenuity.
Any meat eating species would behave like us because we are a meat eating species.
The predatory instict would settle down when they develop ranching, because without ranching and farming for feed for their livestock they won’t have enough time to develop science and space travel.....
We can handle intelligent lizards with advanced technology as long as we have enough ginger.
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