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Gloominary wrote:If humans were to go extinct, what animal would be next in line to evolve big enough brains, with enough folds, to build a civilization...or something like it, high society and technology?
Zero_Sum wrote:Humanity would destroy the entire planet on the way out the exit door therefore none.
Serendipper wrote:Gloominary wrote:If humans were to go extinct, what animal would be next in line to evolve big enough brains, with enough folds, to build a civilization...or something like it, high society and technology?
Apes. The animal would need thumbs to use tools.
Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:Humanity would destroy the entire planet on the way out the exit door therefore none.
Not necessarily if we killed ourselves with a super virus we concocted.
Zero_Sum wrote:Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:Humanity would destroy the entire planet on the way out the exit door therefore none.
Not necessarily if we killed ourselves with a super virus we concocted.
Which 500 plus nuclear plants around the world would go unattended.
Gloominary wrote:While that will devastate some regions of the world, many others will be fine.
Zero_Sum wrote:Gloominary wrote:While that will devastate some regions of the world, many others will be fine.
Not if it contaminates the oceans or much of the world's fresh water supplies.
Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:Gloominary wrote:While that will devastate some regions of the world, many others will be fine.
Not if it contaminates the oceans or much of the world's fresh water supplies.
I have to do more studying on this, but I'm sure some macroscopic life forms would survive.
Arcturus Descending wrote:All of the below...
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/anima ... mals-earth
It would take great mutual effort to perpetuate the world.
Individually and collectively, they all bring something to the table.
There is no *I* in team.
Zero_Sum wrote:I'm still going with an extinction event of all life on the planet approach.
Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:I'm still going with an extinction event of all life on the planet approach.
I think a mass extinction event is very likely as well, but I'm hoping a few sentient species like crows and magpies will survive.
Zero_Sum wrote:Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:I'm still going with an extinction event of all life on the planet approach.
I think a mass extinction event is very likely as well, but I'm hoping a few sentient species like crows and magpies will survive.
Let us all hope such a scenario can be avoided.
Water is very...watery, it doesn't seem to be conducive to structuring things the way land in air is.
Arcturus Descending wrote:Gloominary wrote:Water is very...watery, it doesn't seem to be conducive to structuring things the way land in air is.
What about a Tsunami though it is affected by other things? It is like a superstructure itself and I daresay that it does structure things or change the structure of things.
Let us not forget about the altruistic vampire bat. One never knows when blood is at its lowest. It too would have its place.
There is such a need for blood these days.
Gloominary wrote:Serendipper wrote:Gloominary wrote:If humans were to go extinct, what animal would be next in line to evolve big enough brains, with enough folds, to build a civilization...or something like it, high society and technology?
Apes. The animal would need thumbs to use tools.
Why's that?
Elephants can use their trunks.
Crows and parrots can use their beaks, they've already been found fashioning simple tools in the wild.
Ants and bees already build amazing things, which may get even more sophisticated eons from now.
Octopi and squid can use their tentacles.
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