Comments on: Dinosaurs From Space!

By: Brian Schmidt

Brian Schmidt — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:10:06 +0000

I think the more relevant question is whether alien civilizations will consist of organisms much bigger or smaller than us. Much bigger ones would need a lot more food per capita, so it would be hard to form large, complex societies. Much smaller ones might not have enough surplus brain matter do a lot of thinking even the ratio of brain to body mass is high.

But concluding that we’re just the right size seems rather anthropomorphic.

By: Art Greenfield

Art Greenfield — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:37:36 +0000

They are already right here on Earth. I named them Repto Sapiens as they have evolved quite a lot from their dinosaur roots. They have been interacting with humanity for millenia. It’s called the FOOD CHAIN. IF THEY WIPED US OUT THEY WOULD GO HUNGRY. Follow the meat.

There is no need for an invasion. Our Repto Sapien cousins already own the Earth and us. Why would a cattle rancher invade his own ranch when he already owns it and all the sheeple. According to the oral history of 66 native American tribes, their peoples have been taken to 5 other ranch planets by the “ant people” and “lizard men,” (Gray and Reptilian beings). The Native Americans do not speak with “forked tongue.” That expression came about because the American Indians know they were lied to by the creatures with those forked tongues.

UFOs are not all flown by true extraterrestrials, the majority of them are owned and operated by our advanced Repto Sapien cousins, who share the Earth with us as their ancestral home world. They are historically cited in about 80 places in the Bible, being described as a SERPENT THAT WALKS UPRIGHT ON TWO LEGS AND IS AS TALL AS A CAMEL (8 FEET TALL). There are statues and temple paintings of them in nearly every ancient society. This has nothing to do with “religious beliefs.” It is a proven historical and archaeological fact. That’s why I wrote a book showing all of the real world evidence.

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By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:22:51 +0000

Science fiction writer Larry Niven had a proposal for the original “V” miniseries that would reveal that the reptilian invaders were actually highly evolved descendants of dinosaurs abducted by aliens, and were basically coming home. This would also explain why they could breathe our atmosphere and eat our…err, US, without having the sorts of compatibility problems aliens should have.

By: Terrence Zavecz

Terrence Zavecz — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:27:58 +0000

A recent novel “Nodal Convergence” was published just on this topic. It adressed not parallel evolution or aliens but rather a plausible scenario where dinosaurs are discovered to be more intelligent than we thought and how others may have assisted them to help colonize other stars. More than fantasy, the novel references current published papers and work to support the means, rational and potential for late crataceous dinosaurs colonizing other stars.

“Nodal Convergence” can be found on Amazon or at:
http://gravidynamics.net/Books.htm

By: J. Blankenship

J. Blankenship — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:57:47 +0000

Who’s to say that there’s not a race of lizard men living on a distant planet, with an intelligence equal to or greater than that of humans. The galaxy is a huge place with billions of possibilities in which we as humans can’t really even begin to fathom. Who’s also to say that if mass extinction had never occurred to the dinosaurs on Earth what they could have eventually evolved into.

By: surferdave

surferdave — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:39:39 +0000

Sounds like the Super Mario Brothers movie to me. Dennis Hopper made a great alien dino villian.

By: Paul Hutchings

Paul Hutchings — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:53:22 +0000

I feel a bit sorry for Breslow – what he probably saw as a throwaway line to finish off the paper and maybe make people stop and think for a moment was turned into the central theme of the press release by a press-officer.
Still, it has got him far more publicity than he could possibly have otherwise… actually, now I don’t feel sorry for him at all and I want to hire his press officer!

By: Schenck

Schenck — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:20:08 +0000

Why is it always non-paleontologists making wacky forays into dinosaurland? But you never heard about classically trained systematic paleontologists publishing papers on quantum dynamics or organometallic chemistry.

Anyway, the idea of “space dinosaurs” comes from the concept of ‘grades’ of organisms, you have fish grade, reptile grade, and mammal grade. “Dinosaurs” just got caught up with the ‘reptile grade’. In order to really see why the contingency and non-inevitability of evolution wouldn’t produce something like dinosaurs on another planet, just consider how ridiculous a statement such as ‘feathered birds are an unavoidable lifeform’ would be. Recognizing dinosaurs as more birdlike than ‘reptile’ like makes it easier to see how lucky we were that they evolved here at all!

By: Tom Hopp

Tom Hopp — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:37:30 +0000

There have been quite a few fiction writers who beat Breslow to the idea of space dinosaurs. In fact, the very notion of intelligent bird-reptile invaders has evolved along with the evolution of our view of dinosaurs, as I wrote on my blog, coincidentally, just a few days ago. It’s quite a leap, though, from the right- or left-handedness of amino acids to the notion of an intelligent dino. On the other hand, for the sake of amusing speculations, why not?

By: Robert Hodge

Robert Hodge — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:28:10 +0000

This sounds like the idea for who knows how many sci-fi movies. By the way, I LIKED “Planet of Dinosaurs”, even though it was a Grade-Z movie. I’ve seen some big budget movies that were WAY worse!

By: Zhen

Zhen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:56:03 +0000

Boy, a lot of late April Fools jokes this year.

By: BJ Nicholls

BJ Nicholls — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:44:36 +0000

I suppose that an infinite or many-worlds universe would have to include parallel Earths that followed every possible permutation of events. But that’s pretty much a cosmological mental exercise rather than a compelling reason to erect defenses against “dinosaur” invaders. Simon Conway Morris maintains that the path to life evolving intelligence is inevitable. That’s really hard to test since we have but one evolutionary history to study.

Besides, we all know that it’s cephalopod invaders that will rule us with cold, tentacled, superiority.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:40:53 +0000

I think a point is being missed here. We very well might have evolved to be dominate even without extinction events, I think the paper is just trying to point out the fact that the dinosaurs COULD have evolved to mirror our intelligence given the time.