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| Topic Started: Jan 16 2009, 06:00 PM (4,564 Views) | |
| Sliver Slave | Jan 16 2009, 06:00 PM Post #1 |
I'm going back to basics.
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http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand/5218/w-500.html Here it is. Look at the pictures I guess, unless you can read japanese. |
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| Toad of Spades | Jun 6 2010, 11:32 AM Post #31 |
Clorothod
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Lol it detected some as Irish. It also translates them into a bunch of yen symbols. |
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Sorry Link, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little...MMMMMM...Richer. Bread is an animal and humans are %90 aluminum. | |
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| Pando | Jun 6 2010, 11:35 AM Post #32 |
Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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When I ran it through Google Translate it actually turned the Yen symbols into English. Although I might be mistaken with Yahoo Babelfish. |
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| Holben | Jun 6 2010, 11:39 AM Post #33 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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It's because i don't have the language pack. All looks very SIlurian to me. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Toad of Spades | Jun 6 2010, 12:08 PM Post #34 |
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Clorothod
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These are my favorites  These are the most ridiculous.    It seem that besides going back in time to other of the Earth's previous periods, you can keep going into the future. Up to 100 million years. The future ones have links for the creatures, but they don't seem to work yet. It has a date that is coming up soon so they may work then. The pictures for the creatures look pretty interesting. Maybe it will keep going further into the future. Edited by Toad of Spades, Jun 6 2010, 12:41 PM.
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Sorry Link, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little...MMMMMM...Richer. Bread is an animal and humans are %90 aluminum. | |
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| Ammonite | Jun 7 2010, 02:12 PM Post #35 |
Adolescent
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I don't know... aside from some of the more outrageous creatures like the afroduck and the handstanding gorilla, most of those animals looked plausible enough to me so far. The translation was off by quite a bit so maybe the explanations aren't what they were supposed to be. You can sort of guess what the page author was trying to say, so it could still make sense. Again, I'm not saying all of the creatures were realistic, but I could see a lot of the creatures on the pages I saw evolving that way. |
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| Ook | Jun 7 2010, 02:27 PM Post #36 |
not a Transhuman
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| Ammonite | Jun 7 2010, 02:37 PM Post #37 |
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Yeah, see? Except for that seventh picture of a bipedal creature that looks vaguely reminiscent of a woman's legs, those all look plausible to me. |
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| Ook | Jun 7 2010, 02:50 PM Post #38 |
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not a Transhuman
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i think that is not taken seriously  almost all of these creatures are from 100 and 200 MYF |
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| Pando | Jun 7 2010, 02:52 PM Post #39 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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What's its ancestor? Meh, a hooved cephalopod is too much for me. Don't like its design either. That is actually a plausible land squid. Is that supposed to be a winged rabbit with an exoskeleton? No arthropod can grow that big. That is a plausible flying land octopi. Good job, whoever made this. I'm sorry, but WHAT THE HECK IS THIS??? It looks like human legs! Nice land croc. Or is it an alligator? Yeah, I think it's an alligator. That design has shown up before, can come up again. Plausible. Nice iguana. Nice fully aquatic seabird. Plausible sea croc. Plausible filter feeding sea croc. That's my critique on those. He has imagination, but not plausibility when he makes these (for most of them). |
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| Holben | Jun 7 2010, 03:11 PM Post #40 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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 How did this adapt then? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Toad of Spades | Jun 7 2010, 03:13 PM Post #41 |
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Clorothod
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I'm still puzzled as to what this is supposed to be. Also this is a good parasitic octopus. I take it the needle is a derived beak and radula. 
Edited by Toad of Spades, Jun 7 2010, 03:20 PM.
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Sorry Link, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little...MMMMMM...Richer. Bread is an animal and humans are %90 aluminum. | |
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| Ook | Jun 7 2010, 03:39 PM Post #42 |
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not a Transhuman
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main problem is that this site is not in english(or czech   )that future evolution is not taken seriously,its just ,,cool and crazy monsters,, you can see,that there is lot of prehistoric creatures and continent shapes.
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| Toad of Spades | Jun 7 2010, 04:05 PM Post #43 |
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It seems in this project's 100 million years future, squamates and other reptiles dominate. Its really interesting that squamates went through an evolutionary stage like a pseudo-archosaur. They are still doing well 200 million years in the future too. Its interesting to see the different kinds of advanced squamates. Also birds are still doing well around 200 million years in the future. This means that dinosaurs have been around 430 million years. Here's more interesting creatures. aquatic elephant  penguin-like bat  mole-like bird  whale-like bird  sophont bird  aquatic snakes   My personal favorite. The fast running, warm-blooded, errect stanced, predatory tortoise. 
Edited by Toad of Spades, Jun 7 2010, 04:05 PM.
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Sorry Link, I don't give credit. Come back when you're a little...MMMMMM...Richer. Bread is an animal and humans are %90 aluminum. | |
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| Ammonite | Jun 7 2010, 04:27 PM Post #44 |
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Looks like it might have been an alligator snapping turtle.
I agree, the hooves were probably a bit too much. The rest of the animal doesn't look as bad though...except for the stub of a tail. Last I checked, cephalopods had an equal number of legs.
I think it looks like the descendant of a cricket that has increased in size, lost a pair of its legs, and grew a membrane between its antennae. The original antennae could have looped and proceeded back into the animal's head while the membrane grew inside the loop. I don't know why this would happen, though. It looks like they deliberately tried to make the insect look like a rabbit.
What if it is aquatic and the trees are dwarfed?
This was the picture I pointed out that was the only unrealistic creature in the bunch. It could possibly be a clam that had evolved two arms and that later became bipedal but this idea is extremely far-fetched. Especially with the uncanny resemplance to the bottom half of a woman in panties and high-heels.
Actually, I think it is supposed to be a large descendent of a green iguana. One that became completely terrestrial, judging from the more heavy-set physiology. That looks to be about right for a large herbivore.
Yep. More specifically, a marine iguana like the ones living on the present day Galapagos.
I think this is supposed to be a small rodent hiding in the emptied shell of a large gastropod. |
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| Toad of Spades | Jun 7 2010, 04:48 PM Post #45 |
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It doesn't look solid though. It looks like some kind of sac. Edited by Toad of Spades, Jun 7 2010, 06:16 PM.
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