They ruled the planet for 150 million years and didn’t ruin the environment once ? What are they even doing?
We’re clearly superior, who else could speed run the mass extinction end game?
there are social octopuses, like the larger pacific striped octopus. imo octopuses had 150 million years to rule the planet and they just weren’t good enough. skill issue. us humans only had 2-4 million years. i’d say we’re doing quite well comparatively.
scratchee@feddit.uk 4 months ago
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 4 months ago
They survived the K-T extiction event ir K-Pg event which killed perhaps 75% of species in earth 66 milliin years ago.
While we are already causing an extinction event which will probably far worse, by causing temperatures to rise to a level higher than in hundreds of millions of years. And I am not so sure that we survive that in the long run. Humans are incredibly adaptable, that’s right. But our food sources are not, and the great mayority of them (except perhaps algae and mushrooms) are far younger in an evolutionary sense, so it is unlikely they can adapt.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] 4 months ago
temperatures have been higher, what hasn’t happened yet is temperatures changing at such speeds
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 months ago
They ruled the planet for 150 million years and didn’t ruin the environment once ?
That’s what the octopodes want you to think.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Maybe their version of “rule the planet” involved mostly just hanging out in their den and thinking interesting thoughts.
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 4 months ago
That’s their problem. No work ethic.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yep they just hang out and do wtf they want to do. They’re not going to work and having politics about whose turn it is to make coffee, or why Will should never have got promoted over Kay. Really they’re the smarter species
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchikern Guide to the Galaxy
adhd_traco@piefed.social 4 months ago
I don’t think domination is actually intelligent or smart.