Dinosaurs on a Spaceship - new Dr Who episode

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/22/doctor_who_to_hit_small_screen_on_1_september/

The first five episodes scheduled to air on the Beeb, according to fansite Doctorwhotv.co.uk, are entitled: Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy, The Power of Three and The Angels Take Manhattan.

Anyone remember the Jon Pertwee Dinosaur episodes ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Dinosaurs

Bloodwing

Dinosaurs on a spaceship? That's old news.....

Does anyone know (without cheating) what was the first dinosaur (or part of) that made it into space?

Capt'n Midnight

Bloodwing

Not the answer I was expecting but now that I see it documented in such a factual way it must be true!!

Guyett

What about things that came before dinosaurs? do they count?

Capt'n Midnight

Guyett wrote: »

What about things that came before dinosaurs? do they count?

Lots of impacts on this planet

some may have caused the other extinctions


http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/Agesort.html
sea bed is no older than 250 million years so most impacts are gone forever
probably some impacts buried under lava traps / sedimentary layers too


technically it's possible for microorganisms to make the trip between earth <--> mars and survive re-entry inside ejected material since only the outer layers get really hot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite

A martian meteorite is a rock that formed on the planet Mars, was ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet, and landed on the Earth. Of over 53000 meteorites that have been found on Earth, 99 were identified as martian

How would we recognise earth ejecta ?
Would the high sulphur rocks from the KT impact zone have any identifiable signature ?
and what are the chances of any microbes or dino dna surviving all this time inside an asteroid ?

Galvasean

Review of the episode:
http://www.krank.ie/entertainment/review-doctor-who-dinosaurs-on-a-spaceship/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdKU752rK4

Galvasean

Another review:
http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.ie/2012/09/dinosaurson-spaceship.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook

Another teaser:

Rubecula

Aww I felt bad at the end of the Triceratops. Poor beastie.

Galvasean

Hmm, not the first time Doctor Who tangled with dinos either:

Adam Khor

Neilos wrote: »

Dinosaurs on a spaceship? That's old news.....

Does anyone know (without cheating) what was the first dinosaur (or part of) that made it into space?

Maiasaura and Coelophysis. Unless someone sent a chicken out there before and I never found out

Rubecula

Well a duck went up in the Montgolfier balloon back in the 18th century, but that is probably stretching things a bit.

BostonB

There was a whole storyline in Voyager about Dino's in space.