And if those dinosaurs also discovered National Socialism, we'd have Nazi Raptors greeting our explorers.
But believing in God is lunacy, say scientists who paint visions of enormous spacesuit wearing Allosaurs holding disintegration ray cannons.
Oh my... this will certainly appeal to David Icke’s crew of loonies who believe in extraterrestrial reptilians.
They could also be super intelligent molluscs. They could be super intelligent arthropods. They could be super intelligent fish. They could be super intelligent amphibians.
Or they could be super intelligent mammals.
Generally, intelligence is associated with predatory habits.
And somewhere in the universe, there’s a dinosaur sitting in his living room watching the lizard equivalent to the BBC eating the lizard equivalent to bangers and mash, reading an article about the possibility of those little furry tree-dwelling creature evolving into carnivorous intellects roaming the universe, and he looks over at the missus and yells, in a cockney accent, “Bloody ‘ell, next thing you know, we’ll be readin’ that we’ll be up to our bums in supersmart newts.”
And if those dinosaurs also discovered National Socialism, we'd have Nazi Raptors greeting our explorers.
Heh. Took a quick look at the title and figured it was another story about life in dc.
And humans don't hunger for fresh meat?
Since evolution isn’t real, I’m not too worried about it.
Swell
And this is what passes for science today, what-if daydreaming.
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
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.
Anunnaki
They are called the Gorn and capt. Kirk beat them with good olde fashioned american ingenuity.
We can handle intelligent lizards with advanced technology as long as we have enough ginger.
I would if they've invented a Chevy Volt too.......
It’s very possible to encounter this somewhere out there in the Universe. In fact, it is a certainty if you consider the Universe to be infinite or nearly so.
I understand the “Monkeys typing Shakespeare” theory but it all becomes possible, even certain, as the number of monkeys approaches infinity.
Actually meeting and seeing them for OURSELVES is a whole other story. Even if both our races master interstellar travel/communication and manage to survive for billions of years, the Universe is so vast that such a chance encounter is still unlikely to occur.
However, I also believe that the Universe is so vast that an advanced race similar to mammals definitely encountered another advanced race similar to reptiles. Multiple times, somewhere and sometime out there.
Our place and time in this universe is smaller than a speck of dust in the desert. Our earliest recorded history only goes back a few thousand years and history from before several hundred years ago is spotty at best for most of the world. Even if they already visited us several centuries ago for whatever reason, we would most likely have no record of it.