if humans go extinct do you guys think another animal would become sentient? ill put money down on octopuses
>>79518019Fuck octopus I think the apes will rise, they are the smartest so far. I think some even use tools to catch fish, but I from what I remember it's Mosty them copying humans. But the fact that they recognize that is crazy. They are a worthy successor to humans imo, our species are related too.
octopus are already sentient wdym
>>79518039that would be so lame though. just having humans fail and then appointing humans 2. im pretty sure anything that exterminates all humans would exterminate the apes as well so i think octopuses hyave a better chance>>79518042i mean like forms a civilization
>>79518064Nah fuck that, the apes will rise in the fallen world, and use ancient human weapons to eradicate the octopus threat, securing their future on earth. An octopus cant hold a gun like a ape can.
>>79518064anything water-based cant achieve the same things because the only reason we've been able to do what we have is because of firecant make fire underwater
>>79518098what if they build cool cities in the geothermal vents at the bottom of the sea floor
>>79518019It will probably be another apeSeems like apes are just the zenith od intelligence in earth
>>79518107geothermal vents! Shit I was thinking about how the fuck would a fish civilization make an engine or fuel stuff, but how would they make tech? Are there minerals and material on the sea floor?
>>79518019octopi aren't getting sentient because they die too fast and don't pass down their knowledgethey have potential, raw intelligence, but too short lived
>>79518118idk im not an octopus engineer im just thinking they have like little villages and dance and sing songs and stuff. not more advanced than homo erectus but just like culture and stuff. i know dolphins already kinda have that but itd be cool if invertebrates did it too>>79518120they could evolve to live longer though
>>79518019If we genetically engineer cats to have opposable thumbs on our way out they will rule the place in a matter of centuries.
>>79518118Every electrical applience is defunct there.They could probably engineer something given enough time,however. Also they can have underwater agriculture aswell
>>79518129maybe in the next few hundred thousand years, surebut with how we're quickly killing ourselves by rendering the planet uninhabitable, we'll sooner bring them down with usassuming nature still goes on without us, i'll bet on dolphins instead, or maybe chimpschimps could learn several things from our legacy
>>79518154Dolphins are fucked they have no efficient ways to manipulate the environment unlike apes and octopuses
>>79518138Maybe in the start they can create a electric eel slave class to fuel their civilization
>>79518019Splatoon loree
>>79518154no way we bring everything down with us. the cretacious extinction was 60 million years ago and only like 20 land animal families survived that and it was one of the tamer mass extinctions in our history. 100% something is gonna survive, maybe mammals will be fossils like dinosaurs but something will make it though and replace the animal diversity
I'm thinking maybe crabs are the next best bet for any of the ocean critters.
>>79518169Biomechical electricity? Seems like the only way
>>79518164good point, chimps it isthe thing about octopi is that most of them die of starvation when looking after their eggs, not sure how the males go but the females watch over their eggs 24/7>>79518175>no way we bring everything down with us.wait until technology evolves up to a certain point and someone decides to bring the moon down on the world, or a relatively large sized asteroidor antimatter energy becomes mainstream and someone decides to drop a pressurized canister of it on the floorall these mass extinctions were natural phenomena, there's no telling what kind of shit we may unleash on the world with time
>>79518185It could work out, I'm thinking they just breed electric eels a certain way like how we do our livestock, bigger, more energy output.
>>79518215Apes are the master species >>79518255It would take a whileEspically since advance genetic research probably isnt a thing
