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The only difference would be that sometimes when you went outside there would be a dinosaur.
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- DeepQantas
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Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
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I could pretend I'm ever getting my 50 euros back from the pterodactyl
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Sep 19, 2015 20:09
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- Macnult
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Beaches would close down more often.
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Sep 19, 2015 20:37
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- Ayatollah Hermione
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every once in a while the young turks would cover a story where a member of PETA gets stomped on by an diplodicus and i would smile knowingly at my reflection in the window
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Sep 19, 2015 20:59
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when driving through rural areas, all deer crossing signs have been replaced with signs showing a giant foot flattening a car
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Sep 19, 2015 21:01
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jurassic parks would basically be dog parks w/ several in every city
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Sep 19, 2015 21:24
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jurassic parks would basically be dog parks w/ several in every city
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Sep 19, 2015 21:29
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wow, I would say, at all these 65 million year old dinosaurs
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Sep 19, 2015 21:38
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bweee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo
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It would probably be good like alligatir
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Sep 19, 2015 21:43
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- DeepQantas
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not a live one
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Sep 19, 2015 21:44
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dinosaurs would hold all the positions of power and we'd be stuck with all the menial jobs
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Sep 19, 2015 21:45
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- fema crisis actor
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bweee-ooo-eee-ooo-eee-ooo
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very strict leashes
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Sep 19, 2015 21:58
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instead of a Werner Herzog documentary about a man who lives with dinosaurs and then gets mauled by them, it's a weekly reality show on Fox
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Sep 19, 2015 22:16
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monster films about a radiation creating a giant dinosaur that terrorizes the solar system
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Sep 19, 2015 22:22
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can dinosaurs cry? found out with the WDNO action news team at 7.
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Sep 19, 2015 22:23
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by Cyrano4747
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selectively bred purse dinosaurs popular with insufferable socialites
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Sep 19, 2015 22:33
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I hate how the media portrays velociraptors. My rescued blue talon is adorable would never hurt anyone!
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Sep 19, 2015 22:38
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- DeepQantas
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whenever someone asks you to imagine dinosaurs just start with ostriches. then add teeth and you're p. much done
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Sep 19, 2015 23:08
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whenever someone asks you to imagine dinosaurs just start with ostriches. then add teeth and you're p. much done
I keep coming up with Gabrielle Anwar
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Sep 19, 2015 23:18
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zarin please post in this thread
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Sep 20, 2015 02:12
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Hmm, total speculation here, I don't think anyone really knows for sure...
It would probably be a lot like it was a long time ago, except probably some of the megafauna would not be around due to the reduction in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere. For every additional centimeter of size, your weight is increasing on a cubic scale -- If you have an animal that's say, ten times bigger, that's a thousand times more weight. Galileo wrote about this, talking about how a horse falling a few meters will break bones; A dog falling a few meters couldn't care less about it. Weight requires a great deal of management and scaffolding -- compare an elephant's feet with a human's, or a spider's legs.
You also will have many more miles of equipment to deal with the distribution of oxygen and nutrients to your tissues, require a vastly upsized cardiovascular system, and all that jazz. But hundreds of millions of years ago, oxygen was twice as concentrated in the atmosphere as it is today. Breathing more oxygen per breath meant it was easier for those larger cardiovascular systems to deliver their needs to the tissues, so large sizes could manage to work well.
Eventually as oxygen concentrations went down, those giant animals became less efficient and got outcompeted by smaller ones. The only real super-large sized animals left are whales, that manage to mitigate the effect of gravity through buoyancy providing equal support through their bodies.
So I would think, if dinosaurs were still alive, we'd be looking at many species of them being smaller, and probably becoming more feathered and taking advantage of the mobility smooth feathered limbs could give them. Which means they'd just be birds, like we know them today probably. Though descendants of the bigger guys would also be around, they would also be smaller.
The big problem would be, the ancestors of ours that lived during that time (tiny placental rodents), would never have the opportunity to take advantage of the cleared-out biospheres when most large sauropods died due to the extinction event. So its probably unlikely intelligent life would even be around, as it took, as far as we know, a really narrow set of factors that haven't really been replicated in biological history to result in what we consider 'intelligent life'. So that may mean that this forum wouldn't even exist 
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Sep 20, 2015 04:21
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by zen death robot
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if dinosaurs were still alive, we'd still be cavepeople level intelligence, we would be too busy playing with the dinosaurs to pursue science and knowledge
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Sep 20, 2015 04:23
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*caveman being outcast from the village* i loving love science...
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Sep 20, 2015 04:24
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I came hoping for a joke explainer post and was not disappointed
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Sep 20, 2015 05:46
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- ulvir
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it'd be like my favourite book as a kid, dinotopia.
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Sep 20, 2015 10:21
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but the thought of big fat terrorbirds being apex predators scares me a bit
canada geese and casowaries are frightening enough as it is, imagine if they were like 3 metres tall
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Sep 20, 2015 10:24
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CANERE CORAM LEONE
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it would be scary but dinosaurs might be cool. all their chubby bits are gone so we just draw dinosaurs like they had skin stretched tight over their bones. a lot of apex predators are lazy when not hunting so you could rub a fat t rex's belly
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Sep 20, 2015 10:31
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it would be scary but dinosaurs might be cool. all their chubby bits are gone so we just draw dinosaurs like they had skin stretched tight over their bones. a lot of apex predators are lazy when not hunting so you could rub a fat t rex's belly
lol here's a gallery of modern animals sketched in the same way paleoartists draw dinosaurs http://www.buzzfeed.com/natashaumer/dinosaur-animals
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Sep 20, 2015 15:01
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CANERE CORAM LEONE
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the pictures in that article come from the end of 'all yesterdays' which is a sweet book about what dinosaurs could look like if they weren't drawn all the same way all the time
includes cute chubby sleeping t rex, worth it
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Sep 20, 2015 15:06
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- ulvir
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gotta make a note of that one
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- tao of lmao
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I own every Jurassic Park piece of memorabilia in existence, so I don't need to wonder, OP.
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