Could we find a dinosaur civilization in space?

Imagine that humankind finally takes wing and reaches out into the heavens to claim its vast cosmic birthright ...

... only to find that a previous wave of dinosaurs from Earth, who left ~65 million years ago, have already colonized the immediate neighborhood?

Moreover, due to a hard problem in physics, their technology has plateaued, above human levels, but not at anything approaching Clarke-style magic. A recent major astronomical event in a distant galaxy, unprecedented in the past 70 million years, has revealed clues to both human and troodont observers about a New Physics, beyond the standard models of both species.

I'm open to the idea that the departing dinos wiped out their mates back on the homeworld, as part of some massive civil war that we call the K-Pg Extinction Event.

Plausible? Why or why not?

posted almost 10 years ago

Serban Tanasa‭

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