from 1 to 3 million years to reach the level we are on right now. What is the possibility that some dinosaurs who ruled the planet for 300 million years didn't achieve the same thing and move on to another planet? Wouldn't it seem feasible that some dinos 'did' achieve sentience after all that time and move to somewhere else? Another planet, dimension, something?
2007-10-22 15:13:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In 200 to 300 million years, their minds could have been so attuned to everything they wouldn't need artifices to do much.
2007-10-22 15:35:13 · update #1
Smaller dinos could have developed brains that were far in advance of their other relatives. Anything is possible as far as I am concerned, I was just wondering if anyone else has ever come to this conclusion?
2007-10-22 15:37:22 · update #2
I'll let you guys fight over who gets the points. No one seems to think outside the box in these questions, just the same old same old.
2007-10-23 01:52:17 · update #3
Oh dear wally mate!!! do you know what time it is here!!!
What do ya think your doing asking a question like that. Trying to get me brain into tizzy aren't you!!
For what its worth I think they became not only sentient but sheer bleeding geniuses. They actually invented a Tardis went forward in time, saw what humans have done to the planet and decided to get the heck outta here. Smaarrt cookies dinosaurs!!!
2007-10-23 01:58:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly remotely possible, though unlikely.
Studies of dinosaur fossils indicate that their brains were too small to develop reasoning ability. Not just too small in pure size, but their brain/body ration just didn't leave any brain left for thought or sentience. The smartest dinosaur (the one with the best brain/body ration) was no smarter than an average chicken or dog.
And most species had no dexterity to manipulate their environment (no fire, no tools, no technology) so not much chance they could have built vehicles or devices to move them to another planet or dimension. Most were herbivores (basically great big cows) moving on 4 legs. Intelligence requires the ability to manipulate the environment in some way.
2007-10-22 15:22:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm-m....This looks to me like some late night thinking after getting sort of numb from a good supply of Coors.
In the first place...For dinosaurs or some other creature on Earth to have decided to and then actually traveled to some
other planet or star, one would expect to see signs of their productive capacity in one form or another. Let me think now...
Have we seen any pictures of Dinosaur Trucks, Dinosaur Launch Pads, Dinosaur Factories, Dinosaur Power Plants, Dinosaur Research Facilities, etc., etc. I cannot recall having seen any excavated in my lifetime. Imagine the size of the smallest space capsule that would be needed to carry two dinosaur astronauts into space. At the very least, the instrument panel would have to have been about the size of a tennis court to hold the control buttons far enough away from each other so the dinosaurs wouldn't step on ten or fifteen of them at once with their big forepaws (feet).
2007-10-22 16:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First you have to look at their dexterity. Even if they were more mentally highly evolved than we were how would they be able to develop the technology? Alot of people believe that dolphins are smarter than man, but what can they do about it? They do not have hands to build or draw or whatever. Also one would have to put aside their own biological needs to fulfill the passion, so even if a T=Rex had a few dextrose fingers his needs to sustain a body that size in that given time era would be too great for him to do much else in his life time
2007-10-22 15:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Kimberlee Ann 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in keeping with risk the main logical reaction is that there are different famous guy or woman structures with different planets that have had plenty greater time for the evolutionary technique to proceed than right here in the international. Given the same set of boundary situations, it style of feels logical to end that intelligence - that's a many times favorable trait for survival and subsequently for evolution - would desire to proceed to a greater stepped forward concern than right here. do not forget that the Earth has merely been around for a pair of million/3 of the time span for the universe as an entire.
2016-11-09 06:09:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is really no evidence of dinosaurs using tools anywhere in the fossil record. There seems for be a trend of intelligence of species to evolve as species evolve to be more complex over long periods of geologic time. But then again anything is possible.
2007-10-22 15:19:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard it said that turkeys are so dumb if they get caught in the rain they will look up to see where it's coming from and have been known to drown. They say a chicken is like a walking tomato. The dinosaurs were just as dumb and completely unaware of their own existence.
2007-10-22 19:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be some kind of fossil record from when they were headed in that direction. Imagine all of the cell phones that will be dug up a hundred million years from now if an intelligence exists at that time. They will know we were here.
2007-10-22 16:10:30 · answer #8 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insects have been around even longer than dinosaurs and we don't see them building spaceships.
2007-10-22 15:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by John B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They didn't have to move. They didn't go extinct.
2007-10-22 15:16:56 · answer #10 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋