Yea, true. As I say, very rare. But possible. It's also not beyond the realm of possibility that better techniques for analysing fossils we already have will grant us a better idea in the future.

Do you mean like if you were to take modern day humans and time machine them back to cave man days lots of people wouldn't survive?

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Tried to Google it. Says that skin is rarely intact all the more the color.

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Don’t forget there are many things AI can’t do that we can, after all it always takes a human to make an AI

Valid but still. It could be anything

I think there is, right? We have skin impressions, and pigment can in fact be preserved, like in feather fossils we have. It's rare for sure, because it requires excellent preservation, but there are absolutely ways we can know

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration

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We could, I dunno, look at reptile skins of creatures that are alive today, that might give us some clues.

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There is gonna be the mission impossible-esque sneaking into server room to plant the remote access bug

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The oil analogy is important but it's not what the whole thing is about:

I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: "May be dangerous to your health." One of the most dangerous presidents we had in this century was John Kennedy because people said "Yes Sir Mr. Charismatic Leader what do we do next?" and we wound up in Vietnam. And I think probably the most valuable president of this century was Richard Nixon. Because he taught us to distrust government and he did it by example. -frank Herbert

It's a warning about putting faith in charismatic leaders and personal dogmas, the oil/spice analogy is good and important but it's not the main point of the series.

Also being attractive.

What, like book club? I thought that was code for 'drinking wine'?

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Come on now, follow my lead I may be crazy, don't mind me

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For most of the rest of us, it will still be the same week.