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A planet idea...; ...named Auratia
Topic Started: Jan 16 2010, 03:17 PM (747 Views)
Canis Lupis
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Goldfish

Someone showed me this article in driver's education. Not true at all (as you will find out in the very first sentence).

But it got me wondering: what would a planet be like with those kind of goldfish? I'm talking about the electrical charge thing. Able to scrape their scales together to create some sort of electrical current and then zap their prey/predators.

Now, unless the Qu genetically engineered goldfish to be this way, they would not be descended from goldfish or even remotely related to them. They would instead be a phylum in Auratizoa. Not necessarily the dominant phylum, but a phylum.

What would the other life be like? What about the planet they would live on? What must planetary conditions be like to give rise to these electric goldfish?

Speculate.
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Are you plausible?

I like the idea of cutting through the insulation to zap prey, sort of like an electro-fang!
Take a look at my exobiology subforum of the planet Nereus!

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food for thought
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Holben
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Rumbo a la Victoria

Well, i envisioned it a bit like that!

Also, this could be compatible with large quantities of magentic materials in the crust, to produce interesting results.
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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