Also funny,
That's practically exactly the plot of a Star Trek Voyager episode called Distant Origin, in which it is discovered that dinosaurs from Earth developed to the point where they had spacecraft and left Earth many millions of years ago, before the Chicxulub impact but at the time of the episode, had forgotten their history (understandable, perhaps, given the idea of a society millions of years old) and denied their history in a way that made the main character mirror Galileo.Mico wrote:I don't want to end this without mentioning dinosaurs. Maybe if they had had a perfect language they could have survived the huge meteor that obliterated their species. On the other hand, maybe they did have the perfect language and were able to escape from the Earth, leaving only the weakest links behind.