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The apes then died from contracting modern diseases they had no immunity to, the diseases spread, and human ancestor populations were wiped out before humans could ever evolve.
The world then got a nice, long reprieve before the evolution of super-intelligent squid fifteen million years later.
Don't just gloss over the 3 million year Age of the Mantis People like that!
Squids never would have evolved superintelligence if the Mantises hadn't welcomed them onto the land and taught them how to catch hummingbirds.
As it turns out, they were all puppets of the alien octopuses. Everything that has happened on Earthβs timeline, orchestrated by an octopus.
Unfortunately, squid Hitler was even worse and when the squids went back to solve that, they wiped themselves out and human history was reset. Except this time without calamari, which made everything just a slight touch worse.
squid Hitler
That is a movie I would gladly be disappointed by.
The apes then died from contracting modern diseases they had no immunity to
Would this go both ways? Would the modern humans also get sick from ancient microorganisms that they've never been exposed to in modern times?
No, we're all evolved with resistance to ancient diseases we already survived as a species. Usually, that's not 100%, but the general idea. Anything else that burned out would be relatively minor. Viruses would be relatively unsophisticated and easily handled by our immune systems.
It's why smallpox hit the Americas so hard, those people left and were isolated while smallpox ravaged the East. The Europeans, Africans, and Asians that came to the Americas were the ones descended from those that survived and could transmit smallpox.
Going to other way is the problem. If you time traveled 3000 years in the future, their version of COVID-5026 might be incredibly hard on you because you and your family didn't survive COVID-3083. Mutations that helped people survive the Black Death also are connected to Chron's disease. It's wild stuff.
But that depends on disease changing, so it's a slower things, like evolution.
Perhaps, but much less likely. Even this long after it, we still have traces of immunity to things that old. And a lot of our modern diseases are evolved from older ones, so resistance to the newer one can also help against the older version.
Still entirely possible that they get infected with something humans have lost immunity to, though.
The world then got a nice, long reprieve before the evolution of super-intelligent squid fifteen million years later.
Genius squids and crabs will always find a way
There's a JRPG about this
So.................................................................................................................................................................................................. what's the name of it?
But this is the JPG about it.
If you have a time machine that lets you solve a problem in your timeline by going back in time to solve it, then you also eliminate the reason causing you to go back in time to solve it, which means that you aren't going to go back in time...
Great Scott!
That's one possible option. The other is that going back in time and changing anything creates a new reality without destroying the one you come from. But since we can't go back in time we don't know if it's the multiverse or the only-one-timeline.
Another option: go to the future, get a history book, go back and change the events to fix the problems before they exist. No paradox (except for the book... and maybe it would change like in BTTF2).
The problem with future history books is that they're being whitewashed by ai. And past history books have already been whitewashed. Books don't always contain the entire truth.
Nah, something else will always come up that you'll feel will be worth going back to change. History will never be perfect. You'll either do this until you die, or until something changes history enough that the time machine never gets invented and Hitler comes back. 0% chance of success.
In the next panel, the monkeys rip them apart limb from limb.
The apes settle their differences and none of them are forced out of the jungle into the plains.
And BAM, humans no longer exist.
Probably for the best
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
...Just kill Hitler.
Unfortunately just killing Hitler doesn't solve the reason why Hitler came into power and some other charismatic leader would come along and do pretty simolar stuff as him.
We would need to kill the people responsible for the market crash and great depression and responsible for saddling Germany with the entirety of the war debts of WW1.
While there were forces and social currents that led to upheaval in interwar Germany, Hitler as an individual is still ma major factor into how things played out. You can't ignore the fact that Germany's government was molded into a cult of personality that was beholden to his whims, and swapping Hitler out for someone else would have had very different results.
If Hitler ended up being one of the Nazis killed in the Beerhall Putsch (which was very likely) one of the other factions in the party could have taken over.
The original members of the Nazi party were actually socialists (hence the name), they were just overshadowed by Hitler and his people early on. But the Beerhall Putsch was early enough that they could have retaken control, though they wouldn't have heen nearly as relevant in politics.
Alternatively, Erst RΓΆhm could have taken over the Nazi party as the de facto leader of the SA (the militant arm of the party).
Much of the point of the point of the Night of Long Knives was to eliminate potential rivals to Hitler within the party so that only Hitler loyalists remained. But if Hitler was dead the struggle of power would have been very different. While Germany wasn't a haven for Jews, for a while they weren't particularly worse than any other country. The focus on anti-semitism was mostly pushed by Hitler and tolerated by the other factions.
If Hitler was dead, It definitely would have looked different, but I don't think it would have been meaningfully different. A population stuck in the throes of economic devastation are primed to find any scapegoat that is the cause of their problems, maybe the Jews wouldn't end up being the main target, but... well... the Jews weren't the only ones in Nazi concentration camps. The gold stars weren't the only forced identifiers, the pink triangles existed too. Hell we've seen in the American decline into fascism that the Hispanic migrants are the scapegoat this time around but that hasn't stopped so many other people from getting caught up by Trump's thugs.
Molding the cult of personality around the glorious leader likely would have happened anyway regardless of who was the charismatic leader, that's just how these types of fascist movements work.
Oh well, sorry Napoleon. The Directory wasn't perfect, but it didn't try to conquer half of Europe.
It would get rid of the majority of losers who have to pretend the colour of their skin is important because they have literally nothing else to add to society.
and poof! human have never existed, chimps live happily ever after
damn that guy's brain is just hanging out like that?
Didn't Hitler and his father both individually sleep with relatives who ended up killing themselves?