The Future is Wild

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2003-07-31 09:59pm

RedImperator wrote:
russellb6666 wrote:yeah I was wondering why no humans or primates?? you would think that something primate like would still be around if not some form of human
They deliberately removed humans because otherwise humans would totally fuck with evolution. I don't know their rationale for wiping out mammals and birds, other than being warm blooded would probably be a disadvantage during exceptionally warm periods.

You would notice that there are lots of mammals and birds in 5mil, a mammal and a bird in 100 mil and at the end of the 100 million year section, volcanic activity has greatly increased, turning the air into poison. That would explain why most of the animals presented are aquatic based.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-01 02:23am

Montcalm wrote:
russellb6666 wrote:yeah I was wondering why no humans or primates?? you would think that something primate like would still be around if not some form of human
By then we will have change physicaly,we`ll have bigger heads smaller limbs grayish skin and big black eyes,and we`ll travel back in time to abduct hillbillies,and gangprobed them.

- in short: We'll look like my avatar?

Seriously, most biologists with an interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials believe that if "Grey"-type aliens exist, their ancestors probably resembled dolphins more than anything else.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-01 07:58am

BTW, am I the only one to wonder why they think vertebrates will become rarer and rarer over the next 200 million years??

FireNexus · Post by **FireNexus** » 2003-08-01 02:03pm

They took one of those most successful orders of animal on the planet and said they'd go completely extinct within a hundred million years or so. I remember getting really mad when I saw that...

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-08-01 09:24pm

I'm with everyone on this. I think it would be hard to believe that mammals will go extinct when mammals were around with the dinosaurs. I remember one of the scientists said they depicted mammals going extinct because of mammalian species declining currently. The cause of the decline of the mammalian species is credited to humans. It would seem to me that if humans were removed from the planet , the mammalian species would make a come back.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-08-05 03:43pm

I posted this a while back. The show pissed me off as it was presented as not just speculation and was just dumb. The show was just bad science.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-08-05 07:05pm

umm.... Did I see a different version? Because I clearly remember the start of the show stating that we Humans had left, because of the huge Ice Age approaching. In front of each segment, we see a probe arriving from space to orbit Earth and report on the status of our old home and what creatures were currently alive and surviving.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-08-05 11:29pm

In regards to mammals and birds going extinct: it's not like it's unprecedented for huge, enormously successful groups to go extinct. I would have liked to have seen their justification, though.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-08-05 11:34pm

Riiiiiiiiiight.....................

I only skimmed through the front page, but hey.. things could happen.

~ver

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2003-08-06 12:14am

LadyTevar wrote:umm.... Did I see a different version? Because I clearly remember the start of the show stating that we Humans had left, because of the huge Ice Age approaching. In front of each segment, we see a probe arriving from space to orbit Earth and report on the status of our old home and what creatures were currently alive and surviving.

Probably the version I saw was edited for time, because they cut out the mammal from the 100 mil and I never even heard about the probes.

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-08-06 08:20pm

Master of Ossus wrote:that a 13 foot fish would develop electricity sufficient to actually kill a full-grown human.

I thouight that they already had a fish that could do that

but I've seen about 4 different versions of this show and i think that they are just continually adding and subtracting animal from it. also its not stupid that mammals die out, i mean they've been on earth longer than some other types of animals that went extinct or into very small populations

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-08-06 08:50pm

True but other types of animals didn't just die out for no particular reason. Mammals just died out for no reason until there was one mouse like species of mammal left and that was being farmed by spiders and eventually that was knocked out because of a mass extinction of pretty much all land animals. Had mammals gone extinct because of the mass extinction it would have been more believable but instead they just had a very successful animal class go extinct for no reason at all.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2003-08-08 12:01am

Howedar wrote:I thought the program was hilarious in its stupidity.

I concur with the esteemed delegate from Albany.