On Sunday, 6 April 2014 22:40:14 UTC+1,
passer...@gmail.com wrote:
> I suspect the clever dinosaurs may score a lot
> higher on an IQ test than the EQ score on the
> mammal scale would predict, and we can't compare
> the two. But the point is, around a million years
> before the "meteor" an extremely intelligent
> dinosaur showed up, with hands, about our size,
> with a large brain.
>
> By the way, you know what one of the results of
> a nuclear holocaust would be? An Iridium layer.
> It's a major by-product of H-Bombs and nuclear
> power plants. Granted a long shot, but what of
> our accomplishments would still survive 65 million
> years from now? None of the metal and plastic,
> and it would be a very thin layer.
Assuming you really believe any of this to be true,
I think you've encountered a version of a joke in
which late dinosaur fossils are discovered holding
protest placards against nuclear bombs or nuclear
energy, implying that they had a nuclear programme
and it's what wiped them out.
This appears in Terry Pratchett's science fiction
novel _Strata_, except that there it's in the
context of reconstructing entire planets to have
an inhabitable environment, and, since nothing
really lived there before, inserting fake fossils
in, as the title suggests, strata, so that geologists
who settle on the new world will have something to
do with their time. Planting nuclear protester
dinosaur fossils, however, is a sacking offence.
After the discovery of a layer of asteroid iridium -
and soot - in geology worldwide right where the
fossils of dinosaurs stop, probably someone added
into the original joke "and the dinosaurs' nuclear
reactors and bombs were full of iridium, you know."
Actually, that rings a bell. But it's still just
a joke.