If they don’t come out of the water, than most of the animals humans are driving into extinction won’t exist either. Rocks don’t care if we bang them together so the planet itself might not be worse off.
In the really long run, the planet is doomed anyway — the sun will die in a few billion years. The only hope for life on Earth is for humans to stop mucking about fighting each other, and plan together for migration to other stars.
I understand both the point of the cartoon and the joke.
Still, it wonders me which of those fingered fish cut down the tree and crafted the nice, round table (and the tools needed to do that), raised and separated the flax fiber used to make the table cloth and turban (and wove it after building the loom), mined the gold for the stand and then melted and cast it (first making the casting mold of whatever material), and either derived the glass or found, formed and polished the huge clear jewel (or maybe it’s a pearl?) that is the globe.
Those seem to be some very sophisticated and intelligent fish.
Humans are the most invasive species we know of. And we’re very good at fouling our nests, too. We like to think that with our big brains, we’re able to foresee trouble and work around it. This appears to be not true for humans as a group, though I’ve seen individuals avoid trouble…
I wonder what the next big invasive (aka “successful”) species will be.
Don’t worry about the planet, it is just a rock circling the sun. Worry about making the conditions on earth better for the lives of fish and future humans.
somebodyshort almost 5 years ago
Opposable thumbs are so overrated
Bilan almost 5 years ago
That sounds like a challenge.
sirbadger almost 5 years ago
If they don’t come out of the water, than most of the animals humans are driving into extinction won’t exist either. Rocks don’t care if we bang them together so the planet itself might not be worse off.
paddy almost 5 years ago
In the really long run, the planet is doomed anyway — the sun will die in a few billion years. The only hope for life on Earth is for humans to stop mucking about fighting each other, and plan together for migration to other stars.
pschearer Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Most people are too innocent to understand there are those who truly, deeply hate the human species.
Superfrog almost 5 years ago
Too late. They’ve already evolved fish fingers.
Enter.Name.Here almost 5 years ago
“Crystal ball, eye of the fates,…
…part the veil and the other world gates!
Bless my vision to awaken threefold…
…my mysterious future, I may behold!"
in.amongst almost 5 years ago
Agreed. It is humans who are the real fish out of water!
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 5 years ago
I’m sure the sharks and other large fish will be pleased.
SrTechWriter almost 5 years ago
I understand both the point of the cartoon and the joke.
Still, it wonders me which of those fingered fish cut down the tree and crafted the nice, round table (and the tools needed to do that), raised and separated the flax fiber used to make the table cloth and turban (and wove it after building the loom), mined the gold for the stand and then melted and cast it (first making the casting mold of whatever material), and either derived the glass or found, formed and polished the huge clear jewel (or maybe it’s a pearl?) that is the globe.
Those seem to be some very sophisticated and intelligent fish.
Watcher almost 5 years ago
And they will evolve into Mermen and Mermaids and make the Ocean uninhabitable, then they will evolve into men and do it all over again.
dadoctah almost 5 years ago
Dang. Seerfish is good!
Lenavid almost 5 years ago
If everyone who sincerely believes that and was committed to their ideals would just dive back into the ocean, the planet WOULD be better off.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 5 years ago
“… and some people thought that even the trees had been a bad idea, and that no one should have ever left the oceans!”
Douglas Adams.
tripwire45 almost 5 years ago
No cartoonists or political commentary that way.
viking-riverrat almost 5 years ago
Oh thank Darwin.
uniquename almost 5 years ago
To paraphrase the late, great George Carlin, the planet’s going to be just fine. The human race, however…
submachine almost 5 years ago
Wiley, will you ever bring back the Nebish?
yimhere almost 5 years ago
Perhaps this is all explained by the real purpose behind fish schooling!
mistercatworks almost 5 years ago
There’s always a Cassandra in every crowd.
ford458 almost 5 years ago
Ah kommon she kame inah spacship.
ElGato almost 5 years ago
The whole thing just Looks and Sounds Fishy to me.
Concretionist almost 5 years ago
Humans are the most invasive species we know of. And we’re very good at fouling our nests, too. We like to think that with our big brains, we’re able to foresee trouble and work around it. This appears to be not true for humans as a group, though I’ve seen individuals avoid trouble…
I wonder what the next big invasive (aka “successful”) species will be.
goblue86 almost 5 years ago
Earth First!
We’ll mine and exploit the other planets later.
WayneTurner almost 5 years ago
Don’t worry about the planet, it is just a rock circling the sun. Worry about making the conditions on earth better for the lives of fish and future humans.