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Could 'Advanced' Dinosaurs Rule Other Planets?

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Christopher O'Brien

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[I've been saying for years that it is possible that dinos developed high-intelligence at the end of the Cretaceous and became space-fairing. Theoretically they may have ecaped before the Chickexulub impact 65 Million yrs ago. Maybe the "reptoids" that are occasionally reported are the advance guard sent here to prepare for their retaking of the Earth. Hmmm ---chris]

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New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs -- monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans -- may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. "We would be better off not meeting them," concludes the study, which appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
In the report, noted scientist Ronald Breslow, Ph.D., discusses the century-old mystery of why the building blocks of terrestrial amino acids (which make up proteins), sugars, and the genetic materials DNA and RNA exist mainly in one orientation or shape. There are two possible orientations, left and right, which mirror each other in the same way as hands. This is known as "chirality." In order for life to arise, proteins, for instance, must contain only one chiral form of amino acids, left or right. With the exception of a few bacteria, amino acids in all life on Earth have the left-handed orientation. Most sugars have a right-handed orientation. How did that so-called homochirality, the predominance of one chiral form, happen?

Breslow describes evidence supporting the idea that the unusual amino acids carried to a lifeless Earth by meteorites about 4 billion years ago set the pattern for normal amino acids with the L-geometry, the kind in terrestial proteins, and how those could lead to D-sugars of the kind in DNA.

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Ah stereochemistry, thalidomide being the best known example of how different isomers can behave differently. As to why there may be a preference to handedness in chemistry - who really knows? It is really weird.

If you talk to someone who studies the crow family of birds - their obvious intelligence leads me to think their forebears a long time ago may have achieved some intelligence. Still, right now, nobody knows why it happened to us.
The thing about intelligence for me, is that it must be really helped by having hands and opposable thumbs. Even if you are a really clever bird it's gonna be a real bugger of an effort to try and do experiments to investigate your surroundings and increase your body of knowledge of your species. Perhaps such an intelligent bird would have to be content with just philosophising from your perch!

But honestly - it seems too good, too lucky to have been given intelligence and the manual dexterity to use that intelligence to learn about the world. Not saying intelligent design but certainly very, very lucky co-incidence? Outside help?:confused:
 
goggsmackay said:
Ah stereochemistry, thalidomide being the best known example of how different isomers can behave differently. As to why there may be a preference to handedness in chemistry - who really knows? It is really weird.

If you talk to someone who studies the crow family of birds - their obvious intelligence leads me to think their forebears a long time ago may have achieved some intelligence. Still, right now, nobody knows why it happened to us.
The thing about intelligence for me, is that it must be really helped by having hands and opposable thumbs. Even if you are a really clever bird it's gonna be a real bugger of an effort to try and do experiments to investigate your surroundings and increase your body of knowledge of your species. Perhaps such an intelligent bird would have to be content with just philosophising from your perch!

But honestly - it seems too good, too lucky to have been given intelligence and the manual dexterity to use that intelligence to learn about the world. Not saying intelligent design but certainly very, very lucky co-incidence? Outside help?:confused:
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I have wondered if the critters traversing the sky are carbon based life forms. They could be silicon based life forms for all we know. The universe created us, what else did it create?
 
I had similar thoughts. If evolution takes the best design and connects it with intelligence then more than likely a dinosaur would never achieve human type intellect. I do think it's interesting. I also think there is purpose to life death the universe and everything. But, that doesn't make me a six day creationist. Interesting find Chris. goggsmackay you said it the way I meant to say it. ;) I think I type to much some time. :)
 
It's an interesting question. Is the humanoid framework linked to sentience and manipulation of an organism's environment, or are we just one of many possible "solutions" ? What we need is a sample size of more than one abstract thinking and environment manipulating species.
 
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