BBC Science has it all wrong

[BeBMan]

Just read an article under the headline Dinosaur asteroid hit 'worst possible place' implicating that dinos might have survived if the asteroid had hit a different spot of the earth back then.

I think that is outrageous and reveals the BBC's terrible pro-dino bias. Consequently if the dinos had survived human history would have been entirely different, but maybe not that long.

While some may think of a golden age of peaceful and hippy-style man-dino coexistence I'm afraid them dinos having us humans for breakfeast (as well as for lunch, dinner, and little snacks in between) would have been the most likely outcome!

So from my POV the asteroid did the job perfectly (unless it was a KH-style kill package delivered by space aliens who wanted to wipe out life on earth before it could evolve into something more smart than dinos....)

[Lorizael]

Yeah, apparently it would have been better if it had hit somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. So that's another asteroid survival tactic we have. If somehow Bruce Willis can't manage to blow the thing up, we can just turn the Earth so that it's ocean-side up.

[Dis]

Speak for yourself. I would luv to do me sum dinosaur huntin'. I could bag myself a tyranasaur and be even more hated than that lion killer from Minnesota last year. The left would go on and on about dinosaur rights, and I'd be shootin' them left and right. Sounds like good times to me.

[ZEE]

The Dissident returnith.

[Aeson]

Yah, the asteroid hit a bad spot for dinos... Earth. If it had hit Mars instead the dinos would have been fine.

[Lorizael]

Speak for yourself. I would luv to do me sum dinosaur huntin'. I could bag myself a tyranasaur and be even more hated than that lion killer from Minnesota last year. The left would go on and on about dinosaur rights, and I'd be shootin' them left and right. Sounds like good times to me.

But you have to consider that if the dinosaurs did not go extinct, you'd probably be a small squirrel.

[Aeson]

Or a dinosaur. Getting hated on by liberal dinos for killing squirrels.

[rah]

Imagine a kidasarous. With a fore brain the size of a pea.

[Dry]

Dinos didn't go extinct, they changed their name.
And size.
We call them birds now.
I had some dino-wings today...

[Aeson]

Imagine a kidasarous. With a fore brain the size of a pea.

So ... just like Kid?

[rah]

Well, the Kidasarous would probably still be smarter.

[Lorizael]

Dinos didn't go extinct, they changed their name.
And size.
We call them birds now.
I had some dino-wings today...

Almost all dinosaurs went extinct.

[giblets]

Yeah, apparently it would have been better if it had hit somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. So that's another asteroid survival tactic we have. If somehow Bruce Willis can't manage to blow the thing up, we can just turn the Earth so that it's ocean-side up.

Or, build a giant trampoline on the spot where the asteroid will land so it bounces off and lands in the ocean.

[giblets]

Dinos didn't go extinct, they changed their name.
And size.
We call them birds now.
I had some dino-wings today...

Would it be possible to breed birds so that they become more dinosaur-like with every generation?

[BeBMan]

But you have to consider that if the dinosaurs did not go extinct, you'd probably be a small squirrel.

Maybe if the dinos were not gone squirrels could have evolved into the dominant species developing shotguns later on, so could be Dis' theory has some merit. I mean humans did it without dinos, so why not squirrels in other circumstances...

Other than that I think there are some pretty innovative ideas in this thread, from turning the earth so it shows a desired side to a giant trampoline acting as a quasi catapult. If ppl in power would follow poly's advice most of mankind's probs would be dealt with successfully in no time.