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Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 02:06:00 2020 No.12515127 View Reply Original Report

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If I had a time machine and transported myself to the Paleocene period what would it be like? Would I be in danger of getting eaten by an animal of those times or die from the climate or a virus?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 02:09:54 No.12515136 Report

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>>12515127
>66-56 MYA
Unless you fucked up and walked straight into a big animal's personal space or ate poisonous mushrooms, you would wander around for a day or so getting tired and hungry and then something opportunistic would attack, kill and eat weak prey. Berries had evolved but fruit had not, watch out for poison batrachians as well, they are everywhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 02:12:45 No.12515144 Report

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>>12515136
How about the weather? It is said that it was hot and humid as fuck in those time but it was tolerable for a normal human being?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 02:16:33 No.12515146 Report

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>>12515127
Depends at what stage of the Paleocene you are at the Danian was technically from the instant the chicxulub bolide impacted to around 61.6 mya. So you could technically end up in the direct fallout of of the impact as the dinosaurs were in the process of dying out to almost 11 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 02:18:19 No.12515150 Report

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>>12515144
You could get heatstroke in more of the Earth's surface than before but wet-bulb fatality was probably not present. +13° isn't that much on the scale of perspiration temperature

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 09:45:14 No.12515871 Report

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>>12515127
You mean right after dinosaurs extinction?
Carnivorous mammals initially were too small, but there were still crocodiles and big birds.
Are you trying to write a story about time travel?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 10:39:14 No.12515996 Report

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>>12515127
The evolved bacteria and microfungi on your body would drown the natural environment. Beyond that you could probably survive on most things since it took time for things to evolve effective poisons. You might get a stomachache at first but your body would acclimate faster than literally everything else in the world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 28 Dec 2020 20:27:43 No.12517556 Report

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>>12515127
The viruses and bacteria you bring back with you could spread and infect the lifeforms that have never had to deal with the variants you have.

Don't do it Anon, everything else will die and you won't exist anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Dec 2020 08:10:57 No.12519591 Report

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>>12517556
This is impossible

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 29 Dec 2020 08:24:06 No.12519627 Report

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>>12519591
I mean if he is going back in time and bringing and entire new lineage of microorganism it would wreck their shit.

Bacteriophages are wild.

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