This morning I came across an interesting article about which animal would take over the world if humans became extinct. Supposing humans died out, from some kind of disease, evolutionists have been questioning which animals would survive the longest, which ones would rise to an alpha status, and how long would it take their brains to advance enough for them to figure out how to get to another planet. Fish have been evolving since time began, however they have been ruled out because they have no thumbs, no means of creating fire, and no means of locomotion on land (unless their fins evolved into feet and their gills evolved to give them the ability to breathe out of water). After fish, we automatically turn to chimps, orangutangs, gorillas - even dogs, cats, and bats - but neither of these species would survive because evolution wouldn't allow it. That's just not how it works. Gorillas and the like have no need to evolve further because they can already swim without fins, can already communicate, can already find food etc. So, what's left? Well, scientists believe that the one species that is most likely to evolve to survive taking over the world is....the octopus!
This isn't exactly as strange as it might seem. You see, an octopus has three hearts (even better than a Time Lord, and kind of like a Klingon!), they have four pairs of arms and can move on land as well as well as underwater, they have
vertebrate-like eyes (which are really creepy!), they don't need thumbs because of how dexterous their arms are, and they are already intelligent without the need to evolve. So you can imagine them one day taking over the world, right? Without the need for thumbs!
Anyway, apart from octopuses, I'm going back to uni next week. So gross. I just want to finish it! I'm nearly finished, but changing my major added an extra semester :( This semester I'm studying Comparative European Politics, Organisational Behaviour, Managing People In The Global Economy, and Business Communication. I've read through the course profiles and they're all theory heavy, which is going to suck. But Business Communication sounds like fun :) The sooner I get this over with, the sooner I finish!
50 Shades Of Awkward has been published!! I'm so excited. You can buy the eBook online, and order the paperback version. Besides having stories published, I've also provided some illustrations, which have been digitally coloured for the book. I'm so excited to just leaf through the pages and see my writing and drawings in print. It's so exciting! Here's one of my drawings. It's for the Shades Of Kinky section of the book! I had so much fun drawing the pictures, and I know they'll look awesome!
One thing that's been giving me the shits is our crappy Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Apparently, Tony Abbott wants to charge a fee for patients who visit Bulk-Billing governments, essentially creating a two-tiered health care system like in America (which sucks, by the way!) Australia currently has a free universal health care system which allows people to visit the doctors and receive certain medical assistance for free. However, if Abbott changes the system, then the sick who are poor or elderly won't be able to receive basic medical assistance, sending them to the hospital, and clogging up beds. You can sign a petition here to keep health care free:
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-keep-health-care-free
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