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| Topic Started: Sep 24 2009, 11:52 AM (760 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 11:52 AM Post #1 |
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Howdy, On this here planet of mine the modus operandi of all life is the manipulation of electro-magnetism and resonance. Hence the planet name. I am just returning to this after about 8 years or so. Needless to say all of my original drawings are lost in the depths of my parents house. But here is one to start with.![]() This creature begins its life cycle as a bipedal omnivore. As it ages, and they have an extremely long lifespan, its limbs gradually get weaker and it relies on using electro-magnetism to fasten objects such as rocks or bones to it's "pelvic girdle" as locomotion. As this frees up its "arms" it can now manipulate its environment. It is the dominant species on its home planet, although not gaining sentience till the second half of its life. More to come! Feel free to join in.... |
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| Empyreon | Sep 24 2009, 12:02 PM Post #2 |
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Are you plausible?
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Sounds like some things I want to do with my project. How does it work?
Edited by Empyreon, Sep 24 2009, 12:02 PM.
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Holben | Sep 24 2009, 12:04 PM Post #3 |
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Cool. I'd like to help, if you want me to develop any ideas. Or anything about dragons. This looks like a promising start. Unlike mine. |
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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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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 12:13 PM Post #4 |
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Not quite sure yet. I am thinking that the "vegetation" would have to be some form of "root" that harnesses the electricity in the planet and sends out resonant bursts of energy that are able to hold shape and the "herbivorous" creatures ingest this (through a yet to be thought out process) and the "carnivorous" creatures take it directly from the "herbivores". They wouldn't actually ingest the animal as much as steal it's electricity. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 12:16 PM Post #5 |
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I am open to all ideas. So please, join in and create! I made this when I was like 15 or so, so I am looking for a fresh start and approach and all input is greatly appreciated. |
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| Empyreon | Sep 24 2009, 12:28 PM Post #6 |
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Are you plausible?
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How does energy hold shape on a macroscopic level? What are you envisioning here? Ball lightning? |
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Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus! COM Contributions food for thought
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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 12:39 PM Post #7 |
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Good question. I have two ideas. 1. The root creates a "skin" of magnetic energy that holds the current in shape. This skin would not be visible so the organism would have the appearance of a contained lightning storm. 2. The atmosphere would be the perfect elemental composition to hold electricity in stasis. So a "tree" would basically be a frozen lightning bolt. A bolt-tree. I think the first one is more realistic. |
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| Holben | Sep 24 2009, 02:06 PM Post #8 |
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Well, its original. But the problem is gaining that enrgy, especially for newly born. Or do they split, like bacteria? |
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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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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 03:15 PM Post #9 |
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Do you mean flora or fauna? |
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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 03:42 PM Post #10 |
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Another idea for "flora". The electricity is extruded upward from the root and as it is exposed to the air it fuses raw elements in the air creating a layer of "bark" resembling fulgurite. "Herbivorous" animals would then scrape the bark away and drink the juice like sap. Assuming the atmospheric conditions allowed the electricity to ooze instead of dissipating. Maybe this planet is quite close to absolute zero? Once said animal was done feeding the bark would eventually seal back up. Cool thing about this would be these massive bolt-trees that have had their growth manipulated by years of animal feeding. Imagine an inverted vertical lightning bolt, encased in opaque glass, with large "tumors" growing all around it at the feeding level. Some could be hundreds of meters across as the result of generations of animals sucking the oozing electricity and the subsequent scabbing over of the bolt-tree. |
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| Ànraich | Sep 24 2009, 04:05 PM Post #11 |
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Well it can't be close to absolute zero and still have life, there are some conditions that are just too harsh for chemical evolution to take place, and without chemical evolution you have no biological evolution. Perhaps the flora undergoes some form of chemosynthesis and then utilizes the unused minerals by forming a kind of mineral bark that is non conductive, and another byproduct is some kind of gas that is easily ionized, like neon? They would look like big fluorescent light bulbs growing from the ground and creatures could somehow absorb the ionized gas for energy. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Deleted User | Sep 24 2009, 04:38 PM Post #12 |
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^^ Yea, that works for me. Although raising another question. How would the biomechanics work for an animal that lived off of ionized gas? Maybe they inhale this through specialized "mouths" that rasp the mineral bark off and fill up like a balloon? They then create miniature electrical storms within specialized organs, powering motor functions and mental activity. Would the waste be an electrical discharge? Or spent ionized gas? This byproduct could also be a means of propulsion. Hmmmmm, good food for thought. |
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