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Nah it won’t be dolphins, they don’t have appendages that can do fine manipulations
The dolphins and octopods will go to war over who inherits the earth
*octopodes (pronounced, I am reliably informed, like a Greek hero!)
Octopodes nuts 😎
Please downvote me.
Okay 😎
Two words. Prehensile. Penis.
My money’s on squid. Super intelligent. Social. Fine dexterity.
Immune to acid ocean waters?
You don’t see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
I was told it would be monkey squids.
Wait your turn sea dog. There are at least 5 different flavors of doritos we haven’t discovered yet.
They could’ve stopped at Purple and my life would be fulfilled enough.
You’re forgetting octopi, otters, squids, and maybe ants or other social insect.
Dogs have a shot, too
There is a sciemce fiction book on that, from Ray Bradbury.
Octopi are fundamentally against the concept of society. Squid are more open to it but are hard pressed to achieve anything since they die after mating.
Cuttlefish? And crabs!
Dolphins are smart enough to know that “taking over” just means responsibility and stress.
Dolphins are evil as fuck
Don’t malign the whole species from some evildoers. ADAB - All Dolphins Aren’t Bad
Jokes on them, we’ll acidify the ocean
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Oh yeah, well good luck doing shit without hands and feet!
Honestly it’s not too difficult to do a better job than us
Nah dolphins would fuck it up too. I don’t think they got this.
Sadly I can’t seem do find it anymore, but there used to be a fake org called the anti-dolphin coalition, claiming that dolphins were in control of all world governments and could kill you with brain lasers or something, among all kinds of other lunacy. It was a good chuckle back in the day.
So I’m sure how we conceive of being the dominant species is biased. But if we talk about civilizations and their ability to eventually propagate beyond earth, I don’t think dolphins have it. Their ancestry tried out land and said “nah, back to the water”. Not to mention anything we do that takes humans out of the equation entirely is going to probably kill off the dolphins, apes, elephants, basically most of the mammalians. It’ll be so long before something evolves to take our place as “earthlings” all our works will be fossils at best
On this note; given that it’s suspected that Earth has only a good ~800 million years or so left, that may not even be enough time for another sentient species to emerge with enough time to become technologically sufficient enough to … avert extinction – much less undo some of the damage that we have done. We have to grapple with the idea that if we fail as a species, we’ll be the only and last sentient species on Earth to have emerged. Or as I like to call it: Get filtered, nerd.
rape, rape everywhere
So, same as now. :/
Waits for the Great filter like a absolute boss
So long, and thanks for all fish
It hits different when you realize it’s the humans that are leaving.
