If Fish Could Fly

What if our perspective of sky and water was flipped? The ocean would be surrounding our heads, and giant gaping holes with clouds would separate the earth. We would look down upon birds and stars, and up towards the fish and deep sea waters.

Open faced boats would not exist, though submarines might continue to work. However, living in an aquatic environment may suggest man evolving from those of lung breathers to gill users. In current times our cars and trains would be useless, and airplanes a waste of time. They wouldn't be able to shove off a pier like the boats of our existence; helicopters and hot air balloons may be the more popular ways of traveling through the sky, but in order to use air transportation you would essentially be traveling underground; moving from opening to opening.

The weather would be chaotic; bursts of high pressured water shooting out from the ground; tornadoes pulling everything into a timeless abyss. Whirl pools and currents dragging you this way and that! The atmosphere would be in shambles, gravity a confusing mess, and a trip to the moon nearly impossible. Fishing would be a difficult task with our current tools, but then again you may go "fishing" for birds and hunting for fish, though a gun would prove quite useless.

Our muscle structure would be affected. Being constantly engulfed in water, things would be of lighter weight, and our skin tougher in texture to prevent the ultimate prune-age. Fellow terrestrial animals would also have to develop a new form of breathing, or if to continue as lung breathers, always be stationed around a breathing hole.

There would be no such thing as an amphibian.