Yes but only because McDonald Douglas didn’t exist yet. If you do find evidence of them having jet aircraft we might be able to invalidate some patents under prior art.
You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.
People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
I tried asking a geologist this question once and just got a funny look.
But let’s say for the sake of arguement that dinosaurs did have a civilisation, if that civilisation was on the level of mediaeval technology then would there be any evidence after millennia and an asteroid impact? If we’re talking about houses made of wood and roads made of cobblestone and no refined metals, would we be able to tell?
There’s an idea that they may have been prior civilisations but they will wiped out and never left any evidence. It would certainly explain why humans are so much more intelligent than the rest of the animals. We aren’t actually special at all, we are just the latest iteration of biological inevitability.
Its a frequent idea but I don’t think there’s any supporting evidence from people I’ve talked to.
I think if a small community existed with houses, it might be permanently unknowable. If a widespread civilization with stone and wood construction existed we would certainly have found some evidence.
Though I think stone and wood construction came very late even for humans. I don’t remember my anthropology class well but its suggested based on hunter gatherers humans often had a sort of nomadic foraging/hunting society until about 10,000 years ago when permanent agricultural settlements started developing.
Like humans are kind of weak and soft, we walk funny, we’re omnivorous endurance pack hunters and fishers. Like in terms of mammals we’re very weird. In the larger animal kingdom we’re pretty weird but maybe not as weird as like mollusks, birds, and crabs where evolution also seemed to have done a series of back-to-back rapid changes in evolutionary pressure by sort of creating and occupying an uninhabited niche in the environment.
I especially am fond of the idea that like “crabification” there’s like a “birdification” and a “hominidification” evolutionary process based on occupying a series of vacant ecological niches that step into each other. So if something like that is true it might be more visible in the fossil record.
Geostationary Orbiting Observer
fossilesque
How’s he gonna operate the stick with those lil’ arms though?
Same way he’s getting around those back plates and thagomizer:
Life, uh… finds a way.
+1 for the thagomiser
Idk, yo mama managed.
Well, yours was a little stick in little hands…
Their arms were about the same length as human arms. I don’t see any issues with that picture.
So you’re saying Its more “where is he gonna put that thicc dino ass”
I thought this was about the grass until I actually looked at the dinosaurs in the picture
Huh, yeah the grass is also inaccurate
Are we sure dinosaurs didn’t have F15s?
Yes but only because McDonald Douglas didn’t exist yet. If you do find evidence of them having jet aircraft we might be able to invalidate some patents under prior art.
afaik, patents don’t care about that. You can even patent things that don’t exist.
Brb gonna go patent my own self worth in case it ever comes into existence.
You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.
People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.
You stay away from my patents on wookie slippers that look like human feet.
If that’s a Tomcat, where’s that lizard’s RIO?
Got to be a velociraptor to fit both in the plane. No idea if they know how to read a radar and select targets for the AIM-54 phoenixs
What about this?
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
Hold on. Dinosaurs might of had like some kind of post communist utopian society. They might have been more culturally developed than humans.
I tried asking a geologist this question once and just got a funny look.
But let’s say for the sake of arguement that dinosaurs did have a civilisation, if that civilisation was on the level of mediaeval technology then would there be any evidence after millennia and an asteroid impact? If we’re talking about houses made of wood and roads made of cobblestone and no refined metals, would we be able to tell?
There’s an idea that they may have been prior civilisations but they will wiped out and never left any evidence. It would certainly explain why humans are so much more intelligent than the rest of the animals. We aren’t actually special at all, we are just the latest iteration of biological inevitability.
Its a frequent idea but I don’t think there’s any supporting evidence from people I’ve talked to.
I think if a small community existed with houses, it might be permanently unknowable. If a widespread civilization with stone and wood construction existed we would certainly have found some evidence.
Though I think stone and wood construction came very late even for humans. I don’t remember my anthropology class well but its suggested based on hunter gatherers humans often had a sort of nomadic foraging/hunting society until about 10,000 years ago when permanent agricultural settlements started developing.
Like humans are kind of weak and soft, we walk funny, we’re omnivorous endurance pack hunters and fishers. Like in terms of mammals we’re very weird. In the larger animal kingdom we’re pretty weird but maybe not as weird as like mollusks, birds, and crabs where evolution also seemed to have done a series of back-to-back rapid changes in evolutionary pressure by sort of creating and occupying an uninhabited niche in the environment.
I especially am fond of the idea that like “crabification” there’s like a “birdification” and a “hominidification” evolutionary process based on occupying a series of vacant ecological niches that step into each other. So if something like that is true it might be more visible in the fossil record.
New conspiracy theory just dropped. Capitalists killed the dinosaurs to hide what communism can accomplish.
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.