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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 46 points 10 months ago (14 children)

If there had been a railway network on Pangaea, would any traces remain now?

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml [S] 49 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Definitely not so we can't rule it out

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

If you are suggesting that lizards make railroads or something I'm 100% in, brother.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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.

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[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

https://media.themoviedb.org/t/p/w188_and_h282_face/wf1yHS94TanlGOdgGr433G1ZxNR.jpg

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml [S] 7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

I don't know what this is but I fuck with it heavy

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Saturday morning cartoons. Thunderlizards. I think it’s a fever dream.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It would have rusted away completely in less than a million years. Maybe we could find some vestiges of iron oxide in a line.

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[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 16 points 10 months ago

Maybe we would still notice long lines of stones that were part of the track ballast under the tracks (aka the rocky bed)

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[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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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[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 1 point 10 months ago

yes