Re: "Trees"

UC wrote:
On Nov 20, 3:18 pm, Ymir <inva...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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UC <uraniumcommit...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If we were suddenly thrust back 80 million years...could we survive?
If you mean the people on this group, probably not. There was no usenet
80mya. Hell, there wasn't even fidonet.

André

What I mean is, would we be able to breathe the air, eat anything
around at that time? Would we die of infections because our immune
systems would be anachronistic, or not?

Air would be fine. Food would be fine. And there would be unlikely to be diseases that would like us, because diseases evolve to infest particular hosts. There being no human population, there would be no human diseases. They do jump hosts from time to time, but that's no different than the situation today. And of course you couldn't catch bird flu, because there were no birds then, the word "bird" referring only to extant species. You might catch avian flu, though.

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