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>1895
>everything becomes crabs in the dystopian future
>2023
>scientist unironically saying everything is turning into crabs
How did Wells know?

>> No.22635446

>>22635438
fabian socialist whose inner circles were filled with aspiring technocrats

>> No.22635448

>>22635438
Wells is a top 3 sci fi writer and I’m tired of pretending he’s not.

>> No.22635452

>>22635438
eugenicist who entangled himself up in a worldwide conspiracy to reshape the world in their image (through technocratic aspirations)

>> No.22635454 [DELETED] 

someone who hated privated property and wanted to see it demolished for the sake of progress. he was not alone in this endeavor, and so, it plays on unto the final act.

>> No.22636216

>>22635438
>scientist unironically saying everything is turning into crabs
Ermmm what now?

>> No.22636236

>>22635448
Wells and Verne are maximum comfy, no disagreement.

>> No.22636879

>>22636216
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-animals-keep-evolving-into-crabs/

>> No.22637922

>>22636879
Evolution is fake
People didn’t come from monkeys and won’t turn into crabs

>> No.22639012
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>>22636879
>you may not like it but this what peak performance looks like

>> No.22639086

>>22635438
time machine

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>>22636236
Both were agents of the Antichrist.

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>>22636879
>>22639012
>the future is basically Kenshi with thousands of mega crabs and crab raiders who worship crab Queens attacking the unevolved and limbless humans that are trying to scrounge a living off the wasteland and bands of religious fanatics storming the crab colonies with rusted clubs and genociding the crustaceans in reprisals.
Is this the future we are in for lads?

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22639731

>>22639713
>The future will be the Thri-Kreen from Dark Sun
Holy kino

>> No.22640040

Lovecraft also wrote about the "arachnid denizens of Earth's last age". What did they know?

>> No.22640185

>>22640040
>>22635438
>>22636879
You anons should post this on /x/ it will be a fucking bonkers thread.

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>>22635438

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>>22635438
Wells in 1895:
>In the future, the underclass will inter-breed into a separate, more physically domineering race that will periodically feast on the smaller, plump, child-like race.
2023:
Pic related

>> No.22641041

>>22636879
>like 10 different animals evolve a certain way to fill a certain niche
>omg you guise everything is turning into crabs xD
you could do this with literally everything
>5241354 herbivorous ungulates with horns
>omg everything is turning into cows it's cows all the way down
>mammal goes into ocean and evolves to look like a fish
>omg everything is whales and dolphins! the ultimate bodyplan!!!
>tree shrews evolve into small monkeys on two separate continent rather independently from each other
>wow small primates are the ultimate life form in the future everyone will be small primates