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numer0ne
13 Oct 14 18:30
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As a ratio, based on what "we" have learned ...without looking it up.

I'm curious to see if people know these things.

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By:
Shanelee1966
When: 13 Oct 14 18:32
How did they grow so big?
By:
i_agree_with_nick
When: 13 Oct 14 18:35
A lot longer.

Humans have been around for about 250,000 years. I'm not sure about dinosaurs but I would guess about 75 million years
By:
tobermory
When: 13 Oct 14 19:02
^
without looking it up..

about right for humans

dinosaurs 160 million
By:
Barry Conway
When: 13 Oct 14 19:09
I remember reading humans and dinosaurs overlapped by about 10000 years. It's astonishing to think they didn't kill us all.
By:
HH Sultan Vinegar
When: 13 Oct 14 19:13
Dinosaurs about 150 million years. First man was created 4026 BC iirc.
By:
tobermory
When: 13 Oct 14 19:16
I remember reading humans and dinosaurs overlapped by about 10000 years

is that in the bible Crazy
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 19:33
So 250,000 vs 160mil... 640 times longer

I was surprised to read we have been around that long. Humans have come a long way since Christ, but Christ what were we doing in the 248,000 years before that?
By:
Mr Eboue
When: 13 Oct 14 19:38
''I remember reading humans and dinosaurs overlapped by about 10000 years.''

Where did you read that?!
By:
cruso
When: 13 Oct 14 19:41
Dinosaurs were around 140 million years but were extinct before primates appeared 6 million years ago
These evolved to humans around 200000 years ago
By:
cruso
When: 13 Oct 14 19:43
sorry
Primates should read 66 million years
By:
tobermory
When: 13 Oct 14 19:48

Oct 13, 2014 -- 7:33PM, numer0ne wrote:


So 250,000 vs 160mil... 640 times longerI was surprised to read we have been around that long. Humans have come a long way since Christ, but Christ what were we doing in the 248,000 years before that?


Hunter Gathering mostly . What did you expect them to be doing ! Until agriculture was invented about 10,000 BC humans lived full time searching for animals they could kill and eat or whatever fruits etc they could find.

By:
Shanelee1966
When: 13 Oct 14 19:51
What about all this Atlantis stuff?
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 19:53
I would have thought they'd get organised, streamline their activities, invent things sooner.
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 19:57
Pure fiction.
By:
tobermory
When: 13 Oct 14 20:00
They were organized , for the purpose of hunting , as that was they had to survive on .They invented some better spears ,bows etc to do this .

It was day to day survival , like any other animal .

Imagine a caveman who announced he wasn't going to go out hunting that day because he felt there was a better way of surviving and he'd just sit around dreaming up inventions towards that . The other caveman would have said 'wtf you doing' and clubbed him over the head .
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 20:03
But you can come up with ideas while hunting/ eating etc. 248,000 years!! Our ancestors have a lot to answer for.
By:
naydam
When: 13 Oct 14 20:03
Well, that woulda been dinner sorted!
By:
Barry Conway
When: 13 Oct 14 20:07
In prehistoric times man had technology similar to today often using an animal.For example, photographs were taken with an instant camera, inside the camera box, a bird carved the picture on a stone tablet with its beak. Other commonly used gadgets included a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses' necks; "automatic" windows powered by monkeys on the outside; birds acted as "car horns", sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies; a razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water; and a woodpecker whose beak was used to play a gramophone record.
By:
tobermory
When: 13 Oct 14 20:08
Ideas for what Confused If they didn't find a large animal (not that easy in a vast wilderness ) and kill it (again very difficult ) and fend off any lions/bears/hyenas that would steal it from them ,then they would starve to death .They were pretty focused on doing this IMO , not daydreaming about things that could not benfit them in anyway .
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 21:26
from wiki
[i**** heidelbergensis evolved into **** sapiens approximately 130,000 years ago[/i]

So you can shave off 118,000 years
By:
numer0ne
When: 13 Oct 14 21:27
h0m0
By:
ebulGery
When: 13 Oct 14 21:29
I remember reading humans and dinosaurs overlapped by about 10000 years. It's astonishing to think they didn't kill us all.

I do not think that is true

Mammals did not really emerge until they were gone, initially things like mice
who may have overlapped slightly

No humans, except in a few films I have seen
By:
ebulGery
When: 13 Oct 14 21:32
I have doubts myself about the longevity of the human race

As a species we are unbelievably violent. No other species kills each other as much as we do,

I don't think any other species enjoys inflicting pain like we do

If you combine that with our cleverness as a species, I think there is a chance we will destroy ourselves
By:
Foinavon
When: 13 Oct 14 21:34
Dinosaur extinction about 60 million years ago. Humans have only existed a small fraction of that time.
By:
ebulGery
When: 13 Oct 14 22:02
The Chimpanzee are our nearest animal relatives

5 million years separates us, 5 million years ago we were the same animal

3 million years Australopithecus, virtually a Chimpanzee with a straight back
all humans come from this..this straight back was important, it allows to voice a large range of sounds
necessary for speech

2 million years ago first hominids start to appear, something like us, but with more hair and flat heads

Not all hominid species survived, we are the winners

The key to our success, our incredible communication ability, this makes us unique, no other animal approaches this.

Our brains developed to process this communication, we were able to hold abstract concepts in our minds, we became aware

We have also used this brain to understand the world around us, this has enabled us to make our lives more comfortable,
discovery of electricity etc
By:
ebulGery
When: 13 Oct 14 23:04
Some people thi k Dinosurs evolved into Birds

Although the current thinking is they may have both evolved at the same time

Recent discoveries in China have found Dinosaur fossils with a covering of feathers

So it is possible all Dinosaurs were covered with feathers, although it is doubtful

they could fly looking at the size of them

The time of the Dinosaurs was followed by a time of large mammals, including large flightless birds

Humans have entered the game fairly late on
By:
ebulGery
When: 13 Oct 14 23:10
The extinction of the Dinosaurs is still a bit of a mystery

A large meteorite did hit the Earth, and there would have been many years of permanent night because of the dust released

But it still took over a million years for them to die out...so it is not totally clear

Although the meteorite strike would probably have killed off the larger ones...

Flora would have suffered and died with no sun the larger herbivores may have become extinct, followed by the larger predators
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