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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Birds: A 360° turn is a complete circle so they'd keep going in the direction they're going in.

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] zrleonard@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I see this alot on lemmy. "That's the joke". Ok well the joke was dumb

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, they do a 360 into dinos and moonwalk away.

[–] the_beber@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Unless they‘re like Spinors rotating in an abstract space.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

They'd go back and forth.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I watched a reliable documentary and humans turn into lizards, then leave their creepy babies on a planet alone

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ten Forward is losing containment, I see.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Listen, it was a celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate, they're totally fine now. Warp 10 is super safe.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So is zuckerburg just a more evolved human?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hes an android learning how to be human, and to control it one day through his glasses, he will try to be the machine god like in the matrix.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

so you are in the android camp. i am in lizard camp

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in order to control humanity, zuckerborg must be able to hook people up to machines.

[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

or (hear me out) - get everyone to leave their mortal bodies and be replaced by lizard like limbs (which can grow back)?

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Gods: circle back to fungi

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

All life on earth: gamma ray burst.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fungi (filled up with that sweet gamma): "Whaa? Where did everyone go? Guys??" :(

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the fungi remember, the fungi know all. The gamma radiation would trigger them to achieve sapience and recreate earth as it was.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Nobody has taken the fact we humans can basically control our own evolution through science and technology into account.

If we don't nuke ourselves, we might just become the Borg in 50 million years.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

It's going to be catgirls and catboys. We all know it.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

we'd be the opposite of the borg, we'd just be vrchat avatars with wifi antennae in our ears. Except for the amish of course, they'd still be doing their thing with larger beards and hair that grows into the shape of a hat.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 12 points 1 week ago

I thought mammals will turn into anteaters?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Everything turns into crabs

[–] krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Shark: shark

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All will be crabs. Riding on trains, of course.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Crabs holding each other's pincers into a crab train.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

All Tomorrows is about the future evolution of humans manipulated by aliens if you want that

In a similar vein, it is so unfair that I won't get to see the night sky when the milky way and Andromeda collide in 3.5 billion years

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay so what was fungus like 50 million years ago?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

fungi are like bacteria, they don't really change in shape. Remember that what we see is basically a limb that drops a bunch of babies, the actual fungi are just filaments in the dirt.

the only differently shaped fungus i can think of is lichen, which is a compound organism made of a fungus body with algae or cyanobacteria inside it.
So i guess that's the most sensible thing for them to evolve into, more complex compound organisms. They already parasitize and control stuff like ants so it's not that far-fetched to imagine them being part of the full lifespan, and hypothetically this could happen to all animals to the point that it's as normal as animals having mitochondria (which are separate organisms that were absorbed by our single-celled ancestors).

Imagine that, having a fungus that's just utterly interlaced through your body, like a secondary nervous system and extra layer to the immune system!

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And how about insects? Arthropods? Creatures capable of engineering their environment?

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Ants, it's all ants

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Dang, this is a bit too absolutely correct.

[–] REDACTED 1 points 1 week ago

Ahh yes, frogs, the perfect species