Yes (as pedanterrific noted). Unless the dinosours were sufficiently badass that they could chew on uranium ore, enrich it internally and launch the resultant cocktail via high powered, targeted excretion. That is one impressive reptile. Kind of like what you would get if you upgraded a pistol shrimp to an analogous T-Rex variant.
(Other alternatives include an intelligent species capable of synthesizing and excreting nano-factories from their pores.)
In response to that reply I note that I gave two examples of mechanisms by which a species might launch nuclear weapons without any ability to use tools. I could come up with more if necessary and a more intelligent (or merely different) mind could create further workarounds still. But that doesn’t preclude acknowledging that the capability to use tools does give significant evidence about whether the species creates technology—particularly in what amount to our genetic kin.
Lack of fossilized evidence of technological artifacts is not the only reason to believe that the extinction of dinosours wasn’t due to nuclear war. It is merely one of the stronger reasons.
Yes (as pedanterrific noted). Unless the dinosours were sufficiently badass that they could chew on uranium ore, enrich it internally and launch the resultant cocktail via high powered, targeted excretion. That is one impressive reptile. Kind of like what you would get if you upgraded a pistol shrimp to an analogous T-Rex variant.
(Other alternatives include an intelligent species capable of synthesizing and excreting nano-factories from their pores.)
Replied to pedanterrific.
In response to that reply I note that I gave two examples of mechanisms by which a species might launch nuclear weapons without any ability to use tools. I could come up with more if necessary and a more intelligent (or merely different) mind could create further workarounds still. But that doesn’t preclude acknowledging that the capability to use tools does give significant evidence about whether the species creates technology—particularly in what amount to our genetic kin.
Lack of fossilized evidence of technological artifacts is not the only reason to believe that the extinction of dinosours wasn’t due to nuclear war. It is merely one of the stronger reasons.