It's a story from Fox about that if we ever got visited by aliens, it might turn out to be super-intelligent dinosaurs, and we might be better off. It's pretty funny imho, but still relevant to the thread.

For instance, if the meteor impact 65 mya did really occur, it could be possible that matter from the Earth have been slung out in space, taking a lot of microbes with it. Imagine these landed on the moon Europa. Then it could be possible that life could have developed in the supposed oceans there? Who knows? Maybe some ejected balls of matter have traveled beyond our solar-system, and seeding life elsewhere. 65 mya is plenty of time to reach a different solar-system, and even begin life from scratch from a microscopic level.
This time hardened tough microbes, which with a weird form of radition (by traveling thru space) could evolve very fast. And in 100.000 years even evolve to an extremely intelligent lifeform.
So, it could be possible that remnants of the dinosaurs could be living elsewhere in our galaxy ?
Just thinking totally out of the box here

a) If they had such things, we would have found evidence of it when finding evidence of them...just as we find ancient tools along with ancient men's bones.

b) dinos simply didn't have the brain capacity for it...we can tell brain size and the amount of folds (necessary for high intellect) from the fossil record, and it simply isn't supported.

The instructor who said,"Well who says they didn't?" did you (and the class) a complete disservice with his comments.

Originally posted by Gazrok
a) If they had such things, we would have found evidence of it when finding evidence of them...just as we find ancient tools along with ancient men's bones.

b) dinos simply didn't have the brain capacity for it...we can tell brain size and the amount of folds (necessary for high intellect) from the fossil record, and it simply isn't supported.

The instructor who said,"Well who says they didn't?" did you (and the class) a complete disservice with his comments. [/quot

Remember that we do not have a full ecological record and that which paleo archaeology has constructed is based on fossil data from a very thick slice of time, it is not the absence of proof that disproves a hypothesis but the presence of proof against, although most are fake I suggest you research a bit more thoroughly and look up the word OOPORT on google, personally I think his teacher was a good teacher that presented his student's with the DATA and THEORY's and allowed them to learn by questioning, when science becomes a belief it becomes a religion for remember the TENET (Latin for it is held - Law in our use) of science that no theory can ever be proven it may only be supported but if any Evidence to the contrary is found then the theory is automatically disproven and a new theory has to be drafted - in the real world were complex theory's have reputation's resting on them evidence against is sometimes brushed out of sight.

A presence of Iridium in a thin layer all over the world, a radio active isotope that is very rare on earth but common in outer space supports the theory of the asteroid impact as does the geological analysis of the yucatan crater, but it is not the only possible cause of dinosaur extinction, the super volcano that covered two third's of the indian subcontinent in mile's thick laver flow's that today we call the dekan traps also erupted maybe because of the asteroid impact as they were both about 65 million years ago and threw vast quantity's of ash and soot into the air, there is also a theory that early mammal specie's raided the dinosaur egg's, and disease but even with supporting evidence they remain theoretical.

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its quite possible to have species of dinosaur to have at least developed basic tool use, language and problem solving skills. we have them present now in modern species. eg apes/monkeys/birds etc,
even having a more advanced tech could be possible and would be hard to detect and study if it was based on biotech rather than the mechanic tech we use now. eg harry harrisons eden series.