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Plant world; A world without animals
Topic Started: Aug 5 2009, 04:07 PM (2,577 Views)
SSJRaptog
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I came with another speculative world.

What if plants became the dominant group of organisms because animals would have somehow never evolved or have gotten extinct in a very early stage of evolution.

Would it in this case be possible for plants to evolve a nervous system and even evolve animal-like forms?
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Flishster
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I had an idea for a plant that takes advantage of high altitudes and updrafts. it has a gas filled sack inside the ryzome [it's a fern] that allows it to float, giveing it direct sunlight away from competition. its roots are also air roots, so it can take in gases to restore its gas sack. it's seeds are small and very lightweight so it doesn't need to create drag with a parachute.
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i desire to start up my own plant world thingamawat, but someone has beat me to it... OH WELL!
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carbon and hydrogen. in a chain. and a little oxygen on the side.
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Canis Lupis
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I think is C12 H24 O6 (maybe C12 H24 O12).


Anyway, I hope you don't mind, but I may write something set on this world.
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Sep 29 2009, 04:54 PM
I had an idea for a plant that takes advantage of high altitudes and updrafts. it has a gas filled sack inside the ryzome [it's a fern] that allows it to float, giveing it direct sunlight away from competition. its roots are also air roots, so it can take in gases to restore its gas sack. it's seeds are small and very lightweight so it doesn't need to create drag with a parachute.
Bladderweed sounds like a good name does it not?
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Holben
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I can't see how you've managed this. I think animal evolution is much faster paced, competitive, and interesting than plants.
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.

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Iowanic
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I kinda liked this thread: wonderfully 'what-if'.

If it wasn't baseball season, I'd try to throw a few ideas out plants migration.

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