(Via Instapundit) Now there’s a sentence I wasn’t expecting to write today. Anyway…
New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs — monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans — may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe. “We would be better off not meeting them,” concludes the study, which appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Xenophobic, much? Yes, OK, the first alien race that we ever meet could look like this. Or they could look like this. Or, you know, even like this (I so totally doubt it, though). That’s an entirely different question about whether or not they’re dangerous to humanity. I mean, I’m descended from countless generations of steadily-less-hairy hominids that killed everything that looked at them cross-eyed and I think that I can be trusted not to eat any random alien babies that might come into view. It seems impolite – worse, an unexamined assumption – to suggest that a hypothetical sentient saurian race would be automatically awful (or automatically wonderful, for that matter). Continue reading This is genuinely slanderous against dinosaurs.
