My so-called government just canceled nearly every space probe and scientific endeavor planned for the next decade, de-orbited two climate monitoring satellites for no reason other than performative politics, put a stop to windmill energy farms, effectively pardoned one of the worst sex traffickers in the world to avoid being found complicit, armed a genocide, and the supreme court is deciding on how legal it is to arrest someone for not being white.

I’mma say naw dog. The only way I could possibly condone uplifting any non-human creatures at this point is if they’re designed to surpass us in every way and utterly overpower our species almost immediately so that we don’t make it out into the stars. We are a scourge, a pox upon our world. I didn’t even get into factory farming and what we’re doing every day to animals for profit.

I say this as someone who grew up watching Star Trek and reading Sagan. The stars are not for us. We are the same horrible primates who smashed each others heads in with rocks for a million years before we discovered agriculture and money. Same creature, more complicated excuses to smash heads.

lol I know enough that i stopped doing commissions for furries over a decade ago because there were so many who took it too far and then got way too serious like this ^

There are furries, and there are furries who take things too far.

Just wear gloves and get some CBT. OCD isn’t a quirky personality trait, it can get worse.

WHILE arguing about the bills, shouting at the dog and trying to ignore the TV blasting in the next room. Then it will truly have replicated what it’s like being human.

Did we send anthropologists anf linguists?

Yes actually, we’ve been studying the language of whales and cetaceans for decades, the study you are referencing, which ended tragically, was part of that ongoing research.

We are closer than ever to unlocking whale language, and have identified several key areas that are hinting that they have actual grammar, such as connecting sounds between repeated “terms” but even with our best tech, we may never be able to hold a conversation with them, as we live in such vastly different worlds that we can assume that they have extremely different perceptions and may not have the foundational experiences necessary to share words and language.

I don’t think I want another class of slave/sex trafficking victims, we have enough problems with manmade horrors creating hell on earth for sentient creatures, we don’t need to make them sapient as well.

Ideally it would work as a seat that automatically braces under the user if they fall backwards, or just is able to touch the ground and help the user not lose balance, then revert to walking-balancing mode when the user stands up again.

It genuinely could have beneficial use for people with mobility problems, it’s too bad these uses are going to be utterly drowned out by furries looking for new accessories to feel unique.

For your fursuit.

transspecies creatures

Furries. Just call them furries.