I think you're underestimating corvids.
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Corvids evolved beyond the need for physical form.
All that remains are echoes.
Caw.... caw... caw.....
They Jonathon Livingstoned themselves.
Ray Bradbury already did this in "There Will Come Soft Rains".
Such an incredible story. The nursery scene is my favorite
I highly recommend all of the Martian Chronicles.
While we're on the subject of Ray Bradbury, most people don't know he wrote things other than science fiction, but he actually wrote one of my favorite mystery novels (which is slightly autobiographical):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17972482-a-graveyard-for-lunatics
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The octopodes are named Paul and Salome.
Nice, was looking for a Children reference 😂
Can't wait for the next book. Apparently it's being worked on
Funnily enough the other parts of the post remind me of "service model", the new book by Tschaikowsky
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What's this a reference to? It's ringing a bell that I can't quite make out
for anyone that wants whis concept as an entire sci-fi story:
this is almost literally the plot of "children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky!
excellent trilogy, but the first part can be read as a standalone story!
Seconded. They are great novels, and quite original!
I've been meaning to check out their novels. Thanks for the reminder.
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Sounds like the scifi short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. It's about a post-apocalypse, automated house that tries to maintain a daily routine, long after humanity is gone.
Sounds like they do better than us at ruling this world.
Other species will have a really hard time following us, because our own playbook is no longer available.
Extraction of resources out of the ground is getting harder and harder. We've exhausted the easily extracted ore for iron/tin/copper mining, and modern mining of those materials requires much more sophisticated technology. So a Bronze Age and Iron Age can't really come up from the ground up.
And without easily extracted fossil fuels providing cheap and abundant energy, industrialization would be a pretty difficult hurdle to overcome.
The best hopes of a post-human civilization will come from whatever species learns to recycle and reuse human waste.
And maybe the leftovers of human agriculture (any plant species that efficiently produce lots of biomass that don't require active planting/tilling/irrigation/fertilization, whatever domesticated animals can survive as feral colonies) will have lasting effects, too.
Why would they need to mine ore when we just left all of it laying around?
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I see Salome and Paul are up to their usual shenanigans under the sea
Came here for this. Thank you, well-read stranger!
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If humanity is extinct what triggered the stupidfridge's message about orange juice? If humans aren't consuming it then who is?
I've thought about this a lot, raccoons are 100% taking over after humans. They already dominate north america and almost conquered Germany. Once human control runs out Europe is fucked and they will eventually take over all of Eurasia.
Oh please, if anyone it’s the dinosaurs coming back for round 2.
Birds are everywhere, many birds are fucking smart and already using tools and doing maths, all they need is seed, they have prior experience. End of story, dinosaurs are back.
Wouldn't it be like round 4 for dinosaurs?
It goes without saying that the Emus will retake Australia.
Since they're flightless, the rest of the world will be safe for a while. But when they form a navy or invent air travel, the rest of the world better watch out!
Edit: LOL, I just noticed your instance. You know what I'm talking about. 😛
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They can cute their way into your house too
My friend has recurring raccoons she feeds. Their little hands are so adorable. There’s a possum that pretends to be a raccoon. She humours him.
Didn't Japan also import raccoons because of a TV show and they went fucking up ancient architecture
I think it’ll be crows
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Someone is overestimating how long a modern appliance will last.
Nah, they won't be able to do their fucking job but I'd bet every non-essential part will last. That washing machine craves telling it's dumb fuck user "D80" and then proceed to do nothing with the load.
As long as that control board can get a couple watts it will sing its song to hopefully coax some poor fool into feeding it.
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I demand more information on the Bronze Age raccoons
We can hope.
I need this kind of content in my life.
This is just copy pasted from the Splatoon lore. 
When will my library have this book?
Get some Werner Herzog for it and I’m in.
Feelgood dystopian sci-fi for misanthropes should be a thing if it isn’t already.
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Octopodes or Octopuses.
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