A different world

The recent hulabaloo about the Prophet's cartoon has prompted me to think how different the world might be if instead of having just one dominant species in this world, there were two. Imagine for an instant, for example, that the dolphin too had an opposable thumb and an underwater fire. It would really have been a very different world wouldn't it?

There would probably have been no countries. Mankind would have been united against dolphin-kind, regardless of whether dolphin-kind were a threat or not. Or maybe there would be dolphin-countries that were defined in the oceans just like ours are defined on land.

There would have been bilateral agreements to curb land and water pollution.

The olympics would have had a different meaning.

Dolphin-kind would have offended humans by depicting walking bombs, and humans would have offeded the dolphins by drawing cartoons of swimming ones.

Guns would be quite useless in wars.

There would be underwater rock shows.

There would be seaports/airports at the same place, or maybe planes that turned into submarines.

There would be a cigarette that can be smoked underwater.

Spying would always be treason. You can't have human disguised as a dolphin, can you?

Beaches would be high security places.

A whole new range of salty cocktails.

Inter-species marriages anyone? (Hell that happens even now, remember that woman who married her dog or something :) ).

The possibilities are endless aren't they.