Looking at the dinos to us...

65 million years. Dinos to now.

65 million years from large creatures to small mamillian rodents to us.

The earth has about 3.5-4.5 billion years left till the heat from the sun will being to destroy its atmosphere. On a 65 million year scale...that is the chance for almsot 70 such evolutions. We may nuke ourselves to the afterlife, but there COULD be 70 new civilizations to come and go after us...

Its simiply amazing!

Yup.

And then there's the thing that if we died out now, statistically, in 65mil years, there would be no evidence of our existence on Earth....

No evidence? What, apart from the thousands of fossilized corpses, the various buried artefacts etc?

Somebody is going to find all the styrofoam floating around, right? LMAO!!!

I guess when the Earth blows up, it will destroy the cosmic ozone layer . . . and the end of time will be all our fault . . . :rolleyes:

*confuzzed*

*And the UFO arrives at another planet... The ship scans the planets, finding the remains of a quickly advancing people. One alien turns to the other "Looks like they used their power to destroy themselves."

The other alien writes it down, "Thats the 4379th planet of morons. Lets go to the next."

Mankinds memory lives on*

CT - I love how bitter you are :-)

Joey- For the most part you're right there would be no evidence we existed. Maybe 65 million years is extreme, but a few hundred million and our impact on Earth will be all but gone.

jonny- You're right, there would be a fair fossil record, but not that easilyu accessible or noticable. (especially if a species with our levle of intelligence did not evolve!)

Another interestng thing is to think about HOW we died out...

Was it a massive collision? Is that was the case, if the collision is large enough it COULD cause massive volcanic activity covering large portions of the earth in 'new' skin. Then surely most all of our record would be gone.

Not necessarily, look at Pompei. Buried in what, 1500 B.C. or something like that? Not millions of years, but, evidence can always be dug up...

one mother of an impact to wipe out all traces of us.....after all, those at Yucatan/Chicxulub nuked the dinos but left plenty of records. Presumably, to obliterate all traces of us, a colliding object would have to be at least a few orders of magnitude larger than those two...i'd guess that something that big would pretty much sterilise Earth down to at least microbial level, if not absolutely.

Can you imagine archeologists digging around and coming up with all kinds of theories as to what we were? I can hear it now.

Dr. Zaus" Clearly the most affluent and intelligent lived in N America and were very religious."

Reporter- "How do you know that Dr.?"

Dr."Because in all of there dwellings they had white porcelien graven images. Usually in a ceramic room. Teh bigger the dwelling, the more of these they had. It is my theory that they worchiped on there knees in front of these images and probalby meditated on some flaoting object in the porcelien bowl. There were apparently different levels of these gods, the most common being the white ones, with bone the nest and so on up to red bowls. Tehy even had little levers to change the water in these bowls. Very clever indeed. We know these gods were imprtant because they were kept in the best rooom in the house, usually surroundeed by cement and ceramic decorative tiles, which is one reason they survived these 65 million years."

Did you know that we have found TWO fossil T-Rex's. Only two over the entire time of their existence. Statistically, we are unlikely to leave anything.

Cosmo - LMFAO!

We have at least 30 individual T. Rex fossils, although very few are complete - perhaps your two are the complete fossils.

More to the point, T. Rex is a very big predator, and those things have a low population density. Smeg knows how many tons of prey one would need, or how many square kilometers its territory would cover. But you certainly wouldn't get 6 billion of 'em on a planet this size. There's waaayyy more of us than there ever were Tyrannosaurs. :p

Yup, sorry, should have said complete. And the same book I read that in said that statistically we would not leave remains, and I never bothrered to check it up.

Originally posted by Manu
CT - I love how bitter you are :-)

Im not that bitter, I just have an odd ironic sense of humor. And people suck.