Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 05, 2023, 01:27 PMHumans will not make the planet go Venus. If humans vanish there will be a great greening before the next ice age.  Then ten million years later squirrels will be in charge.

Mr. Wizard JMG predicted our successor species would be either Raccoons or Crows.  Not sure if I would like to be reincarnated as a smart Coon, but being a Crow would be cool.  Being able to fly under my own power would literally be a dream come true, since I have recurring dreams all the time where I can fly.  This at least is reasonably possible, unlike recurring dreams where I can walk thru walls and turn invisible, with Mutant X-Men type powers that totally violate all the laws of physics.  When I was a kid and went to the movies I could buy all that stuff;  now if Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four goes FLAME ON! as the Human Torch, I can only think "Where is the fuel for this coming from?" and "How come his blood doesn't boil and his brain explode?".  Where does SHIELD find "Mag-Lev" turbines that can lift an entire nuclear powered aircraft carrier into the air?  What are these magnetic levitation devices repelling against?

Other real animals I would like to evolve more intelligence would be Gibbons in a Planet of the Apes scenario, since swinging through the trees via Brachiation would be the next best thing to flying, or maybe a Cheetah  since it would be fun to run really fast and do 0-60 faster than a Ferrari.  Being a Rabbit might be fun, since you could fuck more cute Bunnies than Hef did. lol.  If a water dwelling animal gets brainy, I'll hope for an Octopus, since 8 appendages would be handy.  I think I would be bored being a shark or whale since just swimming around would be tiresome.

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