It the only reason why intelligent, civilization building species developed on land and not on the ocean floor the lack of energy to drive necessary ecological complexity and amount of biomass it subsists on? (Land gets up to 1kW/m2 from the sun, and most ocean is dark.)
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Replying to @Plinz
Great question and my initial answer was that you can't swing a hammer with enough force to knock in a nail, but then I thought - it's cause all the water keeps putting out the metallurgical furnace fires. But the real answer is fins don't grow opposable thumbs.
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Worse: you cannot write under water, so there are no nerds in aquatic societies, and all the dolphins and octopi ever talk about is sports and sex.
3:29 PM - 31 May 2019
from Palo Alto, CA
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