An asteroid strike on the earth wiped out all the dinosaurs millions of years ago. What would the world be like today. If the asteroid had missed?
2007-03-06 10:57:52 · 8 answers · asked by David H 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think a more interesting question is;
Would there be some other intelligent, consciousness squared, technologically-oriented species that would have filled "our" niche or not? Is intelligence a such desirable evolutionary advantage?
2007-03-06 21:11:18 · answer #1 · answered by stargazergurl22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just heard this? This theory has been around since the 1970's - that an asteroid struck the earth in the Gulf of Mexico about 65 million years ago, initiating a years-long night and winter that killed most dinosaurs.
If it hadn't happened, and/or if the dinosaurs hadn't died off, then we likely wouldn't be here. Mammals only started taking over and evolving once the big competition (dinosaurs) were gone.
2007-03-06 13:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dinosaurs would probably still been wiped out. The Ice age came ,in theory, by the asteroid striking the Earth by lifting dust into the atmosphere and cooling the Earth dramatically. Volcanoes could still do that. The super volcano at Yellowstone could release enough smoke and rock and stuff that it could start a small ice age.
2007-03-06 11:16:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We' be here, as mammals DID exist at the time of the dinosaurs, we just weren't the dominant species, more like mice and rats and small apes.
If there hadn't been the asteroid to wipe out the big dinosaurs, I predict we would have survived and evolved, and we'd all be just like "The Flintstones"! Yabba Dabba Dooooooo............
2007-03-06 12:45:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dinosaurs weren't all killed. The branch of the dinosaurs known as birds are still around.
It's unlikely the big dinosaurs would have survived all the recent ice ages, so that would have killed them if the asteroid had missed, but there probably wouldn't be any mammals.
2007-03-06 11:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
(pssst! Hey. It wasn't a meteor or asteroid. It was explorers looking for this planet for years and unimaginable distances. They killed of the giants and quenched the volcanoes so they wouldn't eat or smother the soon to be delivered cargo of physical and mental defects from the home planet)
2007-03-06 11:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
We probably wouldn't be here to think about it.
2007-03-06 11:57:37 · answer #7 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you wouldn't be here!
2007-03-06 11:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋