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.
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If there had been a railway network on Pangaea, would any traces remain now?
Definitely not so we can't rule it out
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.
If you are suggesting that lizards make railroads or something I'm 100% in, brother.
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.
I like the idea though
https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w188_and_h282_face/wf1yHS94TanlGOdgGr433G1ZxNR.jpg
I don't know what this is but I fuck with it heavy
Saturday morning cartoons. Thunderlizards. I think it’s a fever dream.
Maybe we would still notice long lines of stones that were part of the track ballast under the tracks (aka the rocky bed)
It would have rusted away completely in less than a million years. Maybe we could find some vestiges of iron oxide in a line.
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
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
yes
Dinosaur Train! Dinosaur Train! I’m gonna riiiiiiiiide the Dinosaur Train!
Buddy would've eaten them all. I can't get over that.
Or the worst enemy it would be car centric like the US
No no no. Build a super useful Tube!
Not if the lobbyists have a say!!! Fuck American politicians until they're dead.
I play civ 6 I don't need to imagine shit.
How do we tell them pangea broke basically soon as the dinosaurs appeared?