Welcome to our new lizard overlords: Alien worlds could be full of super-intelligent dinosaurs

The Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2012 | Rob Waugh

[JRandomFreeper]

Want something to scare the socks off of you?

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

[cyn]

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*

[MacMattico]

Well, when you only have ity bitty T-Rex arms..!.

[cyn]

GREAT point! Douglas Adams, a man ahead of his time, foretold the 2012 election.

[TigersEye]

On other worlds, dinosaurs could have evolved into huge, intelligent warriors armed with hi-tech weaponry - but without losing their hunger for fresh meat.

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.

[Salgak]

Imagine their infantry. . .

[2ndDivisionVet]

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.

[spetznaz]

Anunnaki

[cyn]

Yeah, right! I can't get past that. I'm wondering what this "chemist" cooks up besides "where the wild things are" type imaginings.

I'm unable to paste in an image of Rex from Toy Story or Barney, but just pretend that I did.

[JRandomFreeper]

Face it, lad.

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

[eater-of-toast]

What’s “MIB”?

[OneWingedShark]

“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

And then there’s Romney...

[eater-of-toast]

Men in black, right?

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[JRandomFreeper]

Correct. Men in Black.

/johnny

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yes. His big issue is the chemtrails.

[GraceG]

They are called the Gorn and capt. Kirk beat them with good olde fashioned american ingenuity.

[GraceG]

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.....

[count-your-change]

I remember him! A scaly green guy in a Speedo that had a really bad attitude.

[rmh47]

We can handle intelligent lizards with advanced technology as long as we have enough ginger.