An Idea I've been kicking around....

AmpedSilence

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So, on channels like NatGeo and History there have been several shows about what would happen if humans disappeared from the earth instantaneously and left everything else behind. Besides the differences in the some things both shows say that within a million years pretty much all traces of human influence on the planet would be gone. All buildings, all recoded knowledge, and all other physical traces would be absorbed back into the earth.

So, that got me thinking....

What if the dinosaurs where intelligent?

It would be a possibility. Consider, there were about 65 million years between the asteroid that killed the dinos and humans started to take hold on the planet. They also were on the planet for 100 million years. Assuming that they progressed in a similar fashion as humans have in the past 100k years, it would be totally possible that dinos had intelligence and were technologically advanced.

From the bones that we discover, we can only postulate what they were like. In the past few years, there have been revisions on the type animal that the T-Rex was and the social ability of the Velicoraptors.

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good sci-fi book series about this

Harry Harrison's Eden series
 

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Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
...both shows say that within a million years pretty much all traces of human influence on the planet would be gone....

I disagree, some of the things we have built, especially stuff like titanium alloys, large structures made of millions of tons of cement and rebar... hell if dino bones are still around after 65 million years, I have to assume some of the more durable things we have created would still be around. Unless of course theres some serious volcanic activity that incinerates everything on the surface.

 
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Wasn't there a recent book about what would happen on Earth if humans disappeared? I think it was called "Without Us."
 

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Originally posted by: Train
Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
...both shows say that within a million years pretty much all traces of human influence on the planet would be gone....

I disagree, some of the things we have built, especially stuff like titanium alloys, large structures made of millions of tons of cement and rebar... hell if dino bones are still around after 65 million years, I have to assume some of the more durable things we have created would still be around. Unless of course theres some serious volcanic activity that incinerates everything on the surface.

I thought the same thing, but they said that today's concrete is NOT as durable as they stuff that they used in ancient times (one of the reasons the Roman aqueducts are still usable). It had something to do with the way the rebar interacted with the concrete.

I think they only thing they said would last the longest would be stainless steel, but even that they only gave a life of about 100,000 to 500,000 years.
 

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Wasn't there a recent book about what would happen on Earth if humans disappeared? I think it was called "Without Us."

These two shows on NatGeo and History might be based on or at least inspired by that book.