It's pretty normal for many different species to use game trails. Sometimes game trails become human trails. Some of those become roads. Some of those became railroads. There's at least some chance there's modern rail along an old dino path. In an abstract and kind of obtuse way, there may be a sort of dino rail still around.
Alright, but I don't want to sugar coat it. It'll be a long, difficult journey. It's doable, though, and the rewards will be substantial. First off, money is tight. We'll probably have to start with green anoles on HO scale trains just to make the market and create at least some demand. However, I'm confident we can have monitor lizards on 1:8 scale by 4th quarter 2027. With any luck we'll be running full scale standard gauge rolling stock with Utahraptors by early 2031.
There‘s literally 0% chance because the earth itself shifted and stretched making any dinosaur path stretched, disjointed or otherwise grotesquely disfigured.
When growing up in Oklahoma I was told that it been unchanged geologically for millions of years and people come study it. Don't know if that's true, my grandpa used to tell me.
22 Comments
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 47 pts · 233d
If there had been a railway network on Pangaea, would any traces remain now?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 233d
Definitely not so we can't rule it out
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 233d
It's pretty normal for many different species to use game trails. Sometimes game trails become human trails. Some of those become roads. Some of those became railroads. There's at least some chance there's modern rail along an old dino path. In an abstract and kind of obtuse way, there may be a sort of dino rail still around.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 233d
If you are suggesting that lizards make railroads or something I'm 100% in, brother.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 232d
Alright, but I don't want to sugar coat it. It'll be a long, difficult journey. It's doable, though, and the rewards will be substantial. First off, money is tight. We'll probably have to start with green anoles on HO scale trains just to make the market and create at least some demand. However, I'm confident we can have monitor lizards on 1:8 scale by 4th quarter 2027. With any luck we'll be running full scale standard gauge rolling stock with Utahraptors by early 2031.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 232d
There‘s literally 0% chance because the earth itself shifted and stretched making any dinosaur path stretched, disjointed or otherwise grotesquely disfigured.
I like the idea though
danc4498@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 233d
https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w188_and_h282_face/wf1yHS94TanlGOdgGr433G1ZxNR.jpg
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 233d
I don't know what this is but I fuck with it heavy
danc4498@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 233d
Saturday morning cartoons. Thunderlizards. I think it’s a fever dream.
judgyweevil@feddit.it · 17 pts · 233d
Maybe we would still notice long lines of stones that were part of the track ballast under the tracks (aka the rocky bed)
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 233d
It would have rusted away completely in less than a million years. Maybe we could find some vestiges of iron oxide in a line.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 233d
There would be technofossils in sediments though and given that we already found a bunch "more" of biofossils first, I'd argue that it's very unlikely
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 233d
When growing up in Oklahoma I was told that it been unchanged geologically for millions of years and people come study it. Don't know if that's true, my grandpa used to tell me.
eah@programming.dev · 2 pts · 232d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
NachBarcelona@piefed.social · 1 pts · 219d
yes
SiblingNoah@piefed.social · 24 pts · 233d
Dinosaur Train! Dinosaur Train! I’m gonna riiiiiiiiide the Dinosaur Train!
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 233d
Buddy would've eaten them all. I can't get over that.
Mgineer@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 233d
Or the worst enemy it would be car centric like the US
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 10 pts · 233d
No no no. Build a super useful Tube!
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 233d
Not if the lobbyists have a say!!! Fuck American politicians until they're dead.
Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 233d
I play civ 6 I don't need to imagine shit.
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 232d
How do we tell them pangea broke basically soon as the dinosaurs appeared?
PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 233d