Poll: After humans are gone from the planet
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World life started out with far less. It can build back up. Besides, there are plenty of scenarios in which humans die but life remains. A nice zombie apocalypse, perhaps? Or a genetic plauge? Anyway, I'm assuming that your lifeless rock scenario is nuclear anihilation. So, did we bomb the oceans? I doubt that radioactive fallout would distub the deepest depths of the sea.zauxz said:
Yeah, but if we didnt have optimists, what would their be to laugh at? My personal favourite are people that buy lottery tickets. That look of chirpy 'it could be me' optimism, just waiting for a dose of real to come along and crap all over them, then the following week, they're back again! Priceless.zauxz said:
On the contrary, maybe when humans are gone, non-intelligent life can thrive without fear of death or destruction of its environment.zauxz said:
But my vote is on kittens. *contented sigh* ...fluffy-wuffy kitty cats.....
Then again...the humans would have to be gone for a reason...a reason that would probably kill all other life on the planet as well. OH, I see your logic. Poor little kitty cats.punkhead58 said:
If we just simply disappeared (meaning we died from a totally biased disaster), I heard in my old Biology class that the friggin' squid had a good chance of evolving out of the water and into an advanced lifeform. Of course, I can't stand to think of it.
I watched this show called "Life After People" on the History Channel (or was that "Population Zero"?) and it showed how all the animals changed, but it never showed one reigning supreme over all other lifeforms. Even after one million years.
For something as frighteningly bad-ass as human beings, you need a creature with intelligence and curiosity. Hey, man...out of all your choices in the poll...I'd say the monkey, with cats coming in at a close second. Zombies, Bigfoot, and the Lizardman aren't real.
I watched this show called "Life After People" on the History Channel (or was that "Population Zero"?) and it showed how all the animals changed, but it never showed one reigning supreme over all other lifeforms. Even after one million years.
For something as frighteningly bad-ass as human beings, you need a creature with intelligence and curiosity. Hey, man...out of all your choices in the poll...I'd say the monkey, with cats coming in at a close second. Zombies, Bigfoot, and the Lizardman aren't real.
Hedgehogs.
Seriously, what the hell else kills them besides a truck? Without men, there would be no cars, and the hedgehog population would sky-rocket. Then, due to the competition for food amongst the hedgehogs, they'll turn into vicious carnivores that will begin to devour the rest of the worlds population of animals. They'll eventually get longer legs to run faster, and possibly even stand up straight (perhaps like a bear) to widen their range of sight, and with nothing to fear they will abandon their dull colouring for something brighter (blue, perhaps) to increase their chances for finding a mate...
And thus, Sonic the Were-Hog was born.
Seriously, what the hell else kills them besides a truck? Without men, there would be no cars, and the hedgehog population would sky-rocket. Then, due to the competition for food amongst the hedgehogs, they'll turn into vicious carnivores that will begin to devour the rest of the worlds population of animals. They'll eventually get longer legs to run faster, and possibly even stand up straight (perhaps like a bear) to widen their range of sight, and with nothing to fear they will abandon their dull colouring for something brighter (blue, perhaps) to increase their chances for finding a mate...
And thus, Sonic the Were-Hog was born.
AngloDoom said:
Actualy according to the laws of evolution hedgehogs will eventualy adapt to survive trucks..
this can happen in 4 basic ways:
1. tuffness (natural armour, regeneration increased size and mussle)
2. avoidance (land speed, flight, reaction speed)
3. switching of predator/prey relation, use of natural weapons to discourage predators
4. increased breading rate (this makes deaths less relevant)
I there fore hypothesise that if we keep driving we will eventualy see BILLIONS OF GIANT FLYING SPIKEY ARMOUR PLATED ACID VENOM SPITTING HEDGEHOGS - THAT EAT TRUCKS... i think they may inherit the earth.
I love the way so many people voted for kittens, even with all the other reasons they wouldnt be dominant they are the baby form of cats, so we seem to think that once they are developed they will loose their good.....ness.
On the topic of squids they wouldnt become land dominant animals because they are invertibrates, land invertibrates have to be small or they cant move. Thats why all land animals evolved from amphibians, vertibrates with lungs.
Sorry for being all realistic and sciencey.
On the topic of squids they wouldnt become land dominant animals because they are invertibrates, land invertibrates have to be small or they cant move. Thats why all land animals evolved from amphibians, vertibrates with lungs.
Sorry for being all realistic and sciencey.
Humans, as a species will only become extinct if a catastrophic event occurs like a virus, world war 3 or meteor. Depending when we go will determine if life will come after us. We only got about 6 billion years left before the sun becomes a red giant and ends all life on earth. so there may be enough time for a new species to evolve.
