It'll be very difficult for any aquatic species to advance technologically living underwater. Pretty much anything beyond the stone age requires fire. They can't even use the high heat around volcanic vents because being near those would boil them alive. Even disregarding the fire issue, they won't be doing much chemistry either since all of their reagents would dissolve into the environment.
So the first step in their technological development will require creating some kind of land suit made out of biological materials that can safely keep them alive on land long enough to do some experiments. Octopi will then have a pretty good advantage what with having eight very dexterous tentacles. They'd probably be better at intricate work than humans if they can make their land suits not too restrictive.
Humans, they can't even progress in aeromistry because all their gases just expand out into the air, killing them. Useless! They need to develop some sort of man space covering that'll allow them to work in space to do aeromistry.
(I get your point though. This thought came into my head when I was reading your reply and I thought it was funny.)
Humans. They're very nasty. Very primitive. They won't even do aeromistry. The failing CNN and the other lying fake news will tell you they're great but all their gasses just dissipate out into space. Sad!
considering octopi can survive short amounts of time out of water for as long as their gills stay wet, this "land suit" could very well be just clothing made of absorbent materials
It'll be very difficult for any aquatic species to advance technologically living underwater. Pretty much anything beyond the stone age requires fire. They can't even use the high heat around volcanic vents because being near those would boil them alive. Even disregarding the fire issue, they won't be doing much chemistry either since all of their reagents would dissolve into the environment.
So the first step in their technological development will require creating some kind of land suit made out of biological materials that can safely keep them alive on land long enough to do some experiments. Octopi will then have a pretty good advantage what with having eight very dexterous tentacles. They'd probably be better at intricate work than humans if they can make their land suits not too restrictive.
Humans, they can't even progress in aeromistry because all their gases just expand out into the air, killing them. Useless! They need to develop some sort of man space covering that'll allow them to work in space to do aeromistry. (I get your point though. This thought came into my head when I was reading your reply and I thought it was funny.)
Humans. They're very nasty. Very primitive. They won't even do aeromistry. The failing CNN and the other lying fake news will tell you they're great but all their gasses just dissipate out into space. Sad!
considering octopi can survive short amounts of time out of water for as long as their gills stay wet, this "land suit" could very well be just clothing made of absorbent materials