What if...?

What if...

humans evolved intelligence but had no opposable thumbs.
humans also had opposable thumbs on their feet.
humans were herbivores.
trees were sentient.
trees went extinct.
trees have been trying to speak to us this whole time, we just didn't understand.
trees had dreams.
the color of the sky changed from blue to red.
recreational space-flight becomes common in our lifetime.
the Earth gets hit by a huge meteor.
physics is wrong.
water levels rose and our coasts were covered with water.
water levels dropped and our coasts weren't coasts anymore.
zeppelins had remained the mainstream means of travel.
Star Wars really did happen a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
there were aliens.
those aliens have not learned to be peaceful any better than we have.
we ran out of oil tomorrow.
we communicated through ballroom dancing.
video games become more real to us than reality.
as our generation ages, video games replace movies entirely.
video games had never been invented.
dinosaurs were still alive.
all birds became flightless.
ostriches could fly.
"It's Raining Men" by the Weathergirls was the national anthem.
you didn't have toes.
humans lived underwater and had no memory of living on land.
you made clothes out of spaghetti.
cars ran on extra virgin olive oil.
World War II had never happened.
humans could fly.
humans had gills.
cats could speak english.
our food was like cat food; we eat the same dry food every meal of every day.
the internet died tomorrow and never came back.
we were able to leave our bodies and live entirely on the internet.
computers had never been created.
we had never discovered microbes.
my cat wasn't fat.
ghosts are real.
the Harry Potter series is a work of historical non-fiction.
the bible had never been written.
we had never gained the ability to learn other languages.
flying machines were never invented and we had no concept of flight.
John McCain wins the presidency, then dies, and Sarah Palin becomes president.
we never invented fire.
prohibition was still in effect.
we could talk to the dead.
we learn how to time travel.