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Let's say someone blew up mankind. Is there another species ready to take our place?

>> No.10833305 [DELETED] 

niggers

>> No.10833555

>>10833303
Not for a long, long time yet.

>> No.10833788
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Opossums will inherit the earth.

>> No.10833793

>>10833303
>Trump Cakes™

>> No.10833798

>>10833305
Niggers will die without the White man....

>> No.10833800

>>10833555
This implies a gradual, natural and inevitable process from more dumb to more smart animals. There is no such process. We were a nearly impossible fluke. It will never happen again.

>> No.10833808

>>10833303
Closest thing to being our intelligence is an orangutan.

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birbs are ready

>> No.10833850

>>10833819
They dominated the Earth before as dinosaurs, but never quite like we did. They had a chance it seems, but it didn't happen for them. And it's not going to happen the next time either.

>> No.10833858

>>10833303
The space dolphins would just roll back the simulation

>> No.10833861

>>10833303
Dolphins are smart but just like birds lack usable limbs to make them productive.

>> No.10833982

>>10833861
They're also too busy getting high off pufferfish and raping everything to death and beyond

>> No.10833992

>>10833982
This. Is there anything more degenerate than a literal floating torso that inhales the ass fumes of a poison fish to fuel a rape orgy?
What was God thinking when he made that creature?

>> No.10834830

>>10833303
meerkats

>> No.10834878

>>10833303
They've got a billion years before the oceans boil away just FYI.

>> No.10835259

>>10833982
Truly the closest to a possible successor to human

>> No.10835389

>>10835259
This

>> No.10835524

>>10833861
Squids don't tho

>> No.10835525

>>10833861
neither do raccoons

>> No.10835529

>>10833303
Dolphins

>> No.10835615

>>10833992
>ass fumes
I think the tetrodotoxin is released from their skin. There's a small amount in their intestines, but I don't think that's what they release, it's just the same sort of deal as how their other organs contain some TTX.

>> No.10835619

Niggers maybe? Wouldn't last long, but they could pull it off, I think.

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most likely apes

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>>10833788
Awww, it even has a little hat

>> No.10835697

>>10833303
According to /a/, crows are the smartest animals.

>> No.10835880

>>10833861
I like octopuses for this one.

I've heard an assertion that you can't develope industry underwater and so an aquatic species couldn't create an advanced civilization. What do you guys think? The root of the accusation seems to be that there's nothing to burn for energy and the water would make chemical, electrical, and other experiments difficult. I'm pretty sure mechanical power can be generated from tides, currents, and thermal vents in great enough quantities to power industry, but I have no idea how such a civilization would advance scientifically.

>> No.10835953

>>10833303
Our predecessors came from Mars, colonised earth, and then had nuclear fallout. I can imagine that if we were to perish, another species like us would evolve again.

>> No.10836120

>>10833800
It all depends on the conditions of the planet after our extinction. If animals no longer need to adapt much, then the evolution process will greatly slow down and perhaps even stabilize until all life is extinct.

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>>10835953

>> No.10838313

>>10833800
>. There is no such process. We were a nearly impossible fluke. It will never happen again.
in addition to basic "just right" planetary conditions, the environmental process for intelligence is:

tidal water/land fluctuation daily movements
"lunar" provision of light throughout night
"axis" seasonal variation in food supplies
seasonal temperature variation to give requisite for habitat manipulation

>> No.10838316

>>10833303
Complex, multicellular life is only around 600 million years old (Cambrian explosion), and there is only around 600 million years remaining until Earth gets too hot to support complex life.

Earth is already in old age, as far as biosphere is concerned.

Humanity is the only chance of leaving this tomb.