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[dinosize]

Have you ever wondered what comes next? Evolutionarily. After humans.

[ Stephen is in his own cabin, a light and airy space that doesn't really seem to suit him. The camera is propped up on the edge of a sink, where he's washing out blood and dirt from the clothes he wore while out in the port.

He's not really looking at the camera. ]

Do you think humans could ever be a food source for another animal?

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[dinosize]

So humanity only survives as the apex predator. No real threats.

[with_my_teacup]

Basically, yeah. There's no tolerance for real competition. Out on the fringes, survey crews get eaten, fugitives on the run never resurface. But humans make a habitat theirs or they abandon it in my time. Anything that was going to use human as a standard part of its diet is going to have to be real good at space travel.

[dinosize]

Makes sense. Why bother, when you have options.

[with_my_teacup]

My gut tells me anything that could do long term predation on humans would have to be extremophilic or sentient. Maybe both. But a gut instinct isn't science.

...bacteria, maybe, count. Nasty fatal ones that haven't been stamped out most planet-- and those do tend to be extremophiles too. Able to survive sterilization procedures.

[dinosize]

I'd put bacteria in a different category. Doesn't seem to fit in the food chain as we think of it.