What Do You Think Killed The Dino's
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lilgamefreek
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No iceage. I'm not sure if you know but ice ages are onlu a fairly fecent phenomenon, starting in only the last few couple hundred-thousand years. The earth's temperature actually seems to have risen during the rise of mammals, and theories have even said that a global rainforest covered the world with zero presence of icecaps.
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darkraptor
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ok you dont need to PM me...
dino flu
what is ment by this is that you can take the common cold and sneezy on a bus or train ect and people near you get it. say if a Edmontasaurus had it and a tyraanosaur killed it and feed on it the rex would become infected and at some time drink water from a strem the virus would sperd up the water into the ocean were marin reptiles would become infected and also for pterosaurus feeding on infected corpses the same ruls apply
dino flu
what is ment by this is that you can take the common cold and sneezy on a bus or train ect and people near you get it. say if a Edmontasaurus had it and a tyraanosaur killed it and feed on it the rex would become infected and at some time drink water from a strem the virus would sperd up the water into the ocean were marin reptiles would become infected and also for pterosaurus feeding on infected corpses the same ruls apply
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lilgamefreek
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Not much of a paper, though I'm certain you paraphrased it a lot. /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
I'm interested, can you post the entire thing for us?
Us for some flaws I see. First of all, I find it rather hard to believe that a virus could spread that far and wide through a water system, expeacially through a water system as large as the global ocean. Yes there are water borne viruses, however you never hear cases of viruses spreading THROUGH aquatic means. Cholera, you'll have it living in the water system, however it never spreads to the main system because it simply isn't concentrated enough. Pending on the concentration on the virus will determine how far it spreads. Should you have one person dumping his diarhea into the well, then it will remain isolated in the well. If you have an entire city, the virus would likely spread throughout maybe a few miles out of the city. However there have never been cases of viruses spreading across the ocean by oceans alone.
The second problem I have with it is that it is highly unlikely a strain of viruses could wipe out a group as diverse as the dinosaurs. Humans have survived epidemics before. In Europe, a rather large portion of the population survived the plague. Spanish Flue was hard hitting but there were still those immune. All of this is withing one species. Should a illness decimate gorillas, it is unlikely it will affect us. In the rare case that does happen, it will be unlikely to affect Rhesus Monkeys. Dinosaurs, obviously, are far more diversified than our own evolutionary tree. Their resilience to sickness as a group is profoundly greater than ours.
And should a virus arise that does affect them as a large group, shouldn't it have affected creatures similar to it? Crocodiles, snakes, THE BIRDS. Even mammals who are a late offshoot of the reptiles that directly gave birth to the dinosaurs. Obviously a virus that could wipe an entire class would attack at some very basic level. Screw up production of an amino acid or cause rapid lipid degeneration. Something so basic must be shared with the rest of the animal kingdom and spread beyond simply large reptiles to other animals as well.
I'm interested, can you post the entire thing for us?
Us for some flaws I see. First of all, I find it rather hard to believe that a virus could spread that far and wide through a water system, expeacially through a water system as large as the global ocean. Yes there are water borne viruses, however you never hear cases of viruses spreading THROUGH aquatic means. Cholera, you'll have it living in the water system, however it never spreads to the main system because it simply isn't concentrated enough. Pending on the concentration on the virus will determine how far it spreads. Should you have one person dumping his diarhea into the well, then it will remain isolated in the well. If you have an entire city, the virus would likely spread throughout maybe a few miles out of the city. However there have never been cases of viruses spreading across the ocean by oceans alone.
The second problem I have with it is that it is highly unlikely a strain of viruses could wipe out a group as diverse as the dinosaurs. Humans have survived epidemics before. In Europe, a rather large portion of the population survived the plague. Spanish Flue was hard hitting but there were still those immune. All of this is withing one species. Should a illness decimate gorillas, it is unlikely it will affect us. In the rare case that does happen, it will be unlikely to affect Rhesus Monkeys. Dinosaurs, obviously, are far more diversified than our own evolutionary tree. Their resilience to sickness as a group is profoundly greater than ours.
And should a virus arise that does affect them as a large group, shouldn't it have affected creatures similar to it? Crocodiles, snakes, THE BIRDS. Even mammals who are a late offshoot of the reptiles that directly gave birth to the dinosaurs. Obviously a virus that could wipe an entire class would attack at some very basic level. Screw up production of an amino acid or cause rapid lipid degeneration. Something so basic must be shared with the rest of the animal kingdom and spread beyond simply large reptiles to other animals as well.
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