Future in Y: The Last Man

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Future in Y: The Last Man
Topic Started: Dec 3 2010, 12:19 AM (2,134 Views)
TheCoon	Dec 3 2010, 12:19 AM Post #1
Happy merry Jesusmas inhabitants of the Spec Forums! Posts: 646 Group: Members Member #241 Joined: Oct 20, 2009 Nationality: Mexican Favorite Quote: I have not told half of what I saw, for I knew I wouldn't be belived -Marco Polo	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man This series is quite intriguing. It's about a future in which, somehow, all male mammals on earth died, and as consecuence, every mammal went down to extinction in a blink of an eye. The only survivors are the protagonist and his pet monkey. What kind of future ecology and life forms could arise in this situation? Not only mammals would fall, but also other mammal-dependant species, such as snakes that feed on small mammals, and vultures that depend on big predator's leftovers. I have to admit this is a very interesting alternative for the every-increasing number of Future Projects with bats, rodents and lagomorphs as future rulers of the world. What do you think?
	Greetings young life form! Procyon Lotor at your service.

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Pando	Dec 5 2010, 09:35 PM Post #16
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	TheCoon Dec 5 2010, 03:04 PM I was also thiniking: If the extinction of mammals began because of some sort of infectious disease, would the disease also affect marine mammals? It was "mother Earth" "getting rid of males" since "mammals can clone themselves now". I'm being serious. Unless Wikipedia is wrong. I can see lizards taking place of shrews and mice, with their avian overlords preying on them. Australia would be a fun place to start, with the monitor lizards taking over all large predator niches.



Kamidio	Dec 5 2010, 09:46 PM Post #17
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Nope. Crocs have that job.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


Pando	Dec 5 2010, 09:52 PM Post #18
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	Fakey Dec 5 2010, 09:46 PM Nope. Crocs have that job. Or they can rule the sea...



The Dodo	Dec 5 2010, 09:52 PM Post #19
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,382 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: Jul 26, 2009 Gender: Male Nationality: Australian	Crocodiles would still be stuck in their semi-aquatic niche.



colddigger	Dec 5 2010, 09:57 PM Post #20
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	I'm... pretty sure Wikipedia is wrong and that that was just something that one of the female extremist groups in the story believe was what happened...
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Pando	Dec 5 2010, 10:07 PM Post #21
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	SIiver Slave Dec 5 2010, 09:57 PM I'm... pretty sure Wikipedia is wrong and that that was just something that one of the female extremist groups in the story believe was what happened... A disease can't make all male mammals but 1 human and his pet (monkey I think) die at the same time.



colddigger	Dec 5 2010, 10:09 PM Post #22
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	Hm. Good point. I should read up on this story again... Didn't they survive because they were in space though?
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Pando	Dec 5 2010, 10:11 PM Post #23
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	SIiver Slave Dec 5 2010, 10:09 PM Hm. Good point. I should read up on this story again... Didn't they survive because they were in space though? He was in a telephone booth calling his wife with his monkey on his shoulder, if my memory is correct.



colddigger	Dec 5 2010, 10:16 PM Post #24
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	My memory of this thing must be all kinds of funky then. I coulda sworn he was an astronaut. No wait... was it some other group that were astronauts? Shit, I must be really tired...
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The Dodo	Dec 5 2010, 10:19 PM Post #25
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,382 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: Jul 26, 2009 Gender: Male Nationality: Australian	There was a group of Russian astronauts that survived the plague, Yorick and his monkey had an immunity to what ever caused.



colddigger	Dec 5 2010, 10:21 PM Post #26
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	That was it. Russian astronauts.
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TheCoon	Dec 5 2010, 10:22 PM Post #27
Happy merry Jesusmas inhabitants of the Spec Forums! Posts: 646 Group: Members Member #241 Joined: Oct 20, 2009 Nationality: Mexican Favorite Quote: I have not told half of what I saw, for I knew I wouldn't be belived -Marco Polo	We're getting a little bit of topic now, aren't we? For the cause of mammal, some sort of Y chromosome-erasing pathogen will do the trick. I am more interested in what's next than the real cause of the male mammal disapearence. I agree that lizards would fill rat niches. I would love to see some raptors becoming terrestrial and, with time, dinosaur-like.
	Greetings young life form! Procyon Lotor at your service.


Kamidio	Dec 5 2010, 10:56 PM Post #28
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	The Dodo Dec 5 2010, 09:52 PM Crocodiles would still be stuck in their semi-aquatic niche. WRONG. Coon, raptors are already dinosaurs.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


colddigger	Dec 5 2010, 11:08 PM Post #29
Joke's over! Love, Parasky Posts: 9,470 Group: Members Member #143 Joined: Feb 28, 2009 Nationality: Canadian. Just like Phasey! Favorite Quote: "If it weren't for the gutter my mind would be homeless!" - BaliTiger23	Yeah, but some bigass predatory ground birds is what he wants I guess.
	Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle seizures? seizure warning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviwYLZubSw Spoiler: click to toggle


Kamidio	Dec 5 2010, 11:14 PM Post #30
The Game Master of the SSU:NC Posts: 14,725 Group: Members Member #149 Joined: Mar 12, 2009 Nationality: Who knows?~♪ Favorite Quote: "Do you remember how many loaves of bread you have eaten in your life?" - Dio Gender: Dude	Damn birds. Always obscuring the better archosaurs.
	SSU:NC - Finding a new home. Quotes Steve Irwin I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Satoru Iwata - Heart of a Gamer Even if we come from different sides of the world, speak different languages, even if we eat too many chips or rice balls, even if we wave different tastes in games, every one of us here today is identical in the most important way: each one of us was the heart of a gamer. The Writing on the Wall You should not have come here. This is not a place of honor. No great deed is commemorated here. Nothing of value is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive. Parasky \| 2015 You can't be 100% certain Barack Obama is currently the US president, or that the nation of Canada even exists. Dan Avidan See, what I like to do now as an adult is take all that anger and frustration and push it down deep inside of me, until it becomes a seething white core of pure hate. Dan Avidan Follow your stupid fuckin' dreams. WAA http://31.media.tumblr.com/2f7731936cac777ea7b8cb26e8ccaab6/tumblr_inline_mxz9c7XmS41qa4twn.png636,360 http://tmv.proto.jp/reblog.php?post_url= A tool to reblog my own posts. I put it here because I know I'll forget it.


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