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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.
The octopodes are named Paul and Salome.
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!
Yikes, 20w wait on my library’s network.
I do have a hold, but this is why I haven’t been reading much lately
That’s why I just default to using libgen.
i mean…yeah, it’s a really popular book! for good reasons ;)
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.
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. 😛
Emus believe they own the country now.
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.
Landfills are the mining boom of the future.
All really good stuff is going to be in China.
Why would they need to mine ore when we just left all of it laying around?
We have left a lot of the metal we have mined easily accessible
Following intelligences would probably have trouble with energy. Our infrastructure will have failed, and we have used all the easy to get coal and oil
There may be enough left to teach them how to make a spinning generator and synchronous motor. I wonder how long the magnets will stay magnetic in permanent magnet motors
Reminds me of ‘Service Model’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Reminds me of “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”
reads like “There will come soft rains”.
I had the same thought, even down to the Nemoy reading
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.
I would wonder how many Terabytes of Data are being sent around in a fully-autonomous world without any human input.
Given that raccoons baboons and octopus have developed sapiens and civilization in just 1000 years I do not think it’s the most egregious part.
Especially impressive for octopus who somehow had to develop fire, modern smelting processors, electronics, and high energy particle physics while living in an aquatic environment.
If humanity is extinct what triggered the stupidfridge’s message about orange juice? If humans aren’t consuming it then who is?
It was out of orange juice before the extinction.
Raccoon, duh
I don’t have a smart fridge, but my thermostat has to remind me over and over to replace the filter. It’ll just keep reminding me weekly until it’s done
If humanity is extinct who is running the power plants?
The last human in the house may have nearly finished the juice on their last day in the house. Or the water evaporated away leaving dried out pulp or powder
When will my library have this book?
This is just copy pasted from the Splatoon lore.
Octopodes or Octopuses.
I need this kind of content in my life.
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