No, they didn't. Nice and glib statement, but there's almost four hundred million years between those two things. Reasoning backwards and pretending it's a straight line from A to B is kinda ridiculous: _all land-based non-arthropod animals_ went from "basically this" to whatever they are today. You want to talk about homo sapiens, you're gonna have to stop at hominoids. Anything before that and it's meaningless commentary.

My comment was not completely serious, as should have been obvious.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't be the "akchually" guy.

Don't be that "I wish we never existed" guy in an HN comment, either =)

That wouldn't work. WiFi doesn't work underwater!

You wouldn't want to swim around dragging an Ethernet cable all day, right?

For this reason it was inevitable for us to evolve asa land species.

Unless those hands have evolved for communicating over all the fiber optic cables lying around down there.

What I'm about to say is controversial, but "better" is not possible without meaning, meaning is not possible without overcoming evil. Without man to interpret the meaning of it, there's no meaningful difference between a decimated world, or a world that sustains itself for trillions of years since there's no measure to tell anything what is "good" or "bad".

Well, if humanity is unique in this, we are the only species to make this far in the entire universe, that's pretty cool that we have all these technologies and we should keep going. If we are not unique. why worry about this? Not unique, then this is probably a natural path the same as going from a bacteria to a walking fish, just a few steps further down the evolution...