I think that we all reach a point when we ask ourselves, what if walruses had become the dominant mammal on Earth instead of people? Would the buildings in their sprawling ocean metropolises have elevators? Would they have developed some sort of submarine motorcar? Would they send explores up onto land to climb mountains in the same way that we send explorers down into the sea to map trenches? How would their computers differ from ours? Obviously their mouse would have to be completely different so as to be operated by either a flipper or a tusk. Would their internet be different than ours? Or what if our two races existed side by side? With ours controlling the land and theirs controlling the sea? Would we have a long history of wars? A nuclear cold war of some kind? Or would be leave with some sort of separate peace? And would our internets overlap? Would they overlap but seem separate and foreign? Like when you stumble onto a website that’s written in Arabic? Would they have their own version of Google? Or would they use ours? And what about the times when they come up on shore to mate or just to lay around? Would be consider that a trespassing? Or would places like beaches be apolitical neutral zones, like Spain during World War II? All very important, eternal and inevitable questions.
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