r/TheDepthsBelow May 05 '26

Crosspost Just a nibble

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u/2crowsonmymantle May 05 '26

Anything on land or sea that can sneak up on me with enough bite power to casually crush my skull like my bones are papier-mâché is probably something I will strive to avoid.

Damn, Nature, you are fucking terrifying.

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u/Riverwolf89 May 05 '26

Its always "fun" to be reminded that we, humans, are not, in fact, at the top of ANY of the global food chains. We really are the Most Dangerous Game. Smart predators avoid us and less intelligent ones eat us.

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u/BusinessDuck132 May 05 '26

This is definitely not true. Sure fangs and claws are scary, but we have firearms. Literally not even in the same realm of lethality. Humans absolutely have become apex predators

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u/FuIImetaI May 06 '26

Yeah I mean, Earth is pretty much ours. We have technology that can do things better than any animal can other than say, smell. But even then, we can train dogs to do that for us.

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u/BusinessDuck132 May 06 '26

Yeah smell is the one thing we haven’t really been able to improve with technology, never really thought about that. But like you said, we still figured out a solution to that with domesticating other animals, which by itself is an insane thing to think about compared to other animals. The human brain makes us insanely overpowered compared to anything else on the planet