http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/12/alien_dinosaurs/
I found this idea rather fascinating.
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Rather than dying out in the dimly lit aftermath of a ginormous asteroid impact, dinosaurs on Earth may have instead spread to other planets and built a terrifying space-conquering empire.
Organic chemistry expert Prof Ronald Breslow has suggested from new research into DNA that the Jurassic Park monsters may in fact be living in highly evolved civilisations on other worlds - quite possibly with their own interstellar exploration programmes.
"We would be better off not meeting them," the Columbia University boffin warned, however.
The alien dino theory in Breslow's paper published today in The Journal of the American Chemical Society is just one speculative conclusion of his research into DNA shapes. In his research the award-winning academic probed a mystery that's bothered boffins since the last century: why amino acids and sugars on Earth are always structured in a particular way.
A real example of science fiction!
Meh, Anna Leach has nothing on David Icke. ::)
"We would be better off not meeting them." LMAO
Is this a joke?
Quote from: Ali on April 16, 2012, 11:19:15 PM
"We would be better off not meeting them." LMAO
Is this a joke?
Not based on the links at the bottom, but the scientist who proposed it would likely have to have a good sense of humor. :)
Janeway met them/will meet them in the Delta Quadrant.
Quote from: The Magic Pudding on April 17, 2012, 05:30:10 AM
Janeway met them/will meet them in the Delta Quadrant.
Yes she will and their theology got in the way of a logical/peaceful meeting. But that was just a story.
Darn Prime Directive... does more harm than good. Captain Kirk wouldn't have allowed himself to be so encumbered; Nuke them from from space, then chuck all our empty plastic bags, fridges and toxic waste at them for 'storage'. Then say it was the Romulans. Everyone's a winner... sort of...
I think the entire article is presented a little skewed. Reading a bit more carefully, I'm pretty sure that Breslow is just proposing that bits of Earth carrying amino acids might have spread to habitable planets and populated them as per the panspermia theory.
I'm only partly convinced in panspermia, but the possibility is certainly there.
Quote from: ThinkAnarchy on April 16, 2012, 11:30:52 PM
Not based on the links at the bottom, but the scientist who proposed it would likely have to have a good sense of humor. :)
^My thoughts exactly for the first part of the article.
Interesting idea, but I will say the same thing that I say to theists that Is :That extraordinary ideas require extraordinary evidence.