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| Tardigradus; THE FINAL REMAKE. | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 24 2010, 03:55 PM (2,175 Views) | |
| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 24 2010, 03:55 PM Post #1 |
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Ok, so i screwed up a bit again with the tardigradus remake, so i am going to do a final project. The planet tardigadus's size and gravity is changed to 11500 km and 80% of Earths Gravity. Look on the original for all the environmental conditions (for those who don't want to look, it was 20C temperature, 25% oxygen content and 5% C02 content). The premise remains. A world populated by bacteria, algae, lichen and the only animal: A genetically boosted tardigrade species. It has supercharged reproduction, able to go hatch from the egg just 24 hours after being laid and being sexually mature by 10 days old. I will do it in the style of a generation by generation world builder like Sagan 4. I will do at least 6 time periods, including a prologue to set the scene. Scientists in the future populate Tardigradus, and using a time travel, decide to delve into tardigradus's future to study the populant's future evolution. I haven't decided all 6 time periods yet,but i have decided so far to do 35 million (to set the scene), 200 million and 320 million for the first 3 time periods. I promise to make this more realistic, yet more alien and strange than my previous incarnations, as if evolution is given different scenarios and different conditions, it will not follow an Earth like pattern probably. So expect this project to be MUCH better than previous incarnations of it. I imagine the lichen as the only land organisms to begin with, and as they already have a diverse array of forms (flat forms, leafy forms and bushy forms), I also imagine them evolving very quickly like the tardigrades and evolving in similar yet different ways to how our Earth plants evolved, with the fungus part of the lichen evolving into an armour slightly stronger, and much tougher than the chemical that makes up bark, So there will be diverse "flora" on tardigradus. Look up more on the previous versions for further details. I will say if any other details need to be changed, though so if anyone who isn't familiar with the previous ones sees this, go to my previous versions for further guidance. Expect a parralel, yet bizzare fauna to evolve into the distant future. See you next post! Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:51 AM.
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Prepare for the Future Walking with the future: Allozoic (pts 4-6)http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3252142/14/#new 
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 24 2010, 05:20 PM Post #2 |
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BTW, if anyone wants to co-develop this with me, they are perfectly welcome. Whoever wants to recommend time periods and creatures is also welcome. 
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| Ook | Jul 24 2010, 05:24 PM Post #3 |
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i was thinkink about it,but you must start,i could create some fauna |
   
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 25 2010, 02:58 AM Post #4 |
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Ok, I will start with the 1st date obviously: 35 million AP. The RECON team (same as the RECON team in other spec projects like the future of the kinds), goes through a time loop to see how their populated tardigrade world survives. To see how fast things evolve, they first delve just 35 million years into the future. Even they are surprised at the rate evolution has taken in some areas. When they walk onto the surface, vast fields of flat lichen and bushy lichen, up to ankle depth cover thousands of square miles. There are smaller areas of little leafy plants up to 15cm tall as well. The tallest of the lichens they meet are branching descendants of bushy lichen, with a fern like appearance, growing up to 35cm tall. The oxygen content is 26%, and carbon dioxide levels about the same as before. It is incredibly quiet without the human machines before, and little living on land. The silence is deafening. The team decides to go over to a stream where the largest plants seem to be growing. They analyse the water and show flourishing populations of algae and several species of tardigrade. As well as the original species, there is a 3mm algae eater, a 5mm predator, a 4mm filter feeder and biggest of all, a 7-8mm omnivore. These species are considerably longer and more elongated than their ancestor, with an almost worm like appearance in the filter feeder. The herbivore and predator resemble little shrimps crossed with their tardigrade ancestors. The omnivore is blue coloured and has a sail on its back, clearly for some kind of locomotion improvement or sexual display. The team leads up to tardigradus's vast oceans. They send a diver into the tranquil waters to see what environment has already evolved. Some of the seaweed like algae and even the red algae has anchored properly to shallow waters and become harder and more rigid, evolving into colonies resembling miniature coral reefs. These teem with tardigrades of various shapes and sizes. Some are similar to their ancestors, others like worms, others still like aquatic myriapods and further others with a plump, streamlined appearance like a teardrop, which are the largest. One small species, formicagradus, lives in large groups of up to a hundred strong and lives in a mutualistic relationship with some species of red algae, and their descendants could become eusocial. The biggest species found so far is the Neogradus, up to 3.2cm long and feeds on the other inhabitants of the red algae reefs. As they venture out to deeper water, they find strange free floater tardigrades around the surface, the largest no bigger than shrimps. A large showl of tiny tardigrades forms around the diver, in a similar way to krill or sardines on a miniature scale, even though they are less than 0.5mm long, the swarm is more than 5.3m long, 3.2m wide and 2.5m deep. Suddenly a larger beast swoops out of nowhere consuming the swarm. This is clearly the largest animal on tardigradus by a long way. It has a snake like tail and a large head and body (up to 30% of overall length) with 2 pairs of large flippers and 2 smaller pairs, with the whole animal measuring up to 16cm overall. The diver, astounded by his findings, captures a few specimens of all the creatures he has seen so far and several others, surfaces and brings them back to the lab for study. They go back into the "present" day to analyse their ecology and behavioural patterns over a period of weeks and months. After all this, the chief scientist decides to plan mission two and says " Ok, the basic date has been done succesfully, now we will move into a more radical future date. Program the computer for 200 million years!" And the teams next exploration is soon to begin! See you next post! 
Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:51 AM.
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 26 2010, 02:29 PM Post #5 |
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Do i need to ask permission to have recon responsible for my project. Along with Terravis, and several other terraformed worlds, RECON has set up a project named Transportation Of Earth-organisms To Alternative Planets or T.O.E.T.A.P. Several other worlds other than tardigradus and avaterris (these worlds i plan to do in the future) include Arthropoda- world dominated by giant arthropods on a lower gravity superoxygenated world, Slimeworld- a world ruled by gastropods,echinoderms and flatworms, monobilitaria- world with only one biliatarian, a species of hydrothermal tubeworm with the other animals being non-bilitarians, Anoxia- a world with oxygen levels of just 6% and Duo, a twin planet system populated by different creatures on each world, each with dense atmospheres. Tardigradus is their most ambitious project so far, as they are witnessing only 1 species of animal radiate into an incredibly varied number of niches. Anyone want to suggest more critters to discover for 35 million, or even suggest creatures to meet in 200 and 320 milllion by messaging me (don't wanna spoil the post for everyone else.
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| Ddraig Goch | Jul 26 2010, 02:39 PM Post #6 |
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This is a really fascinating project! I love the idea of a world "just starting out", biologically. The other planet ideas sound interesting, but I'd stick to this one first, otherwise you'll find it hard to focus. Your description of the environment and species is also fascinating. Are you able to draw any of the creatures you mentioned? If not, I'd be happy to have a go at drawing them for you (even if I find present-day tardigrades slightly repulsive )
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 26 2010, 03:35 PM Post #7 |
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I can try to draw my creatures so far, but I am a horrific artist (if i upload them, you'll see what I mean). Well i'm not horrific, i get fairly ok grades in art class, but I am tend to rush creatures and especially people, and these are only hobby drawings so i tend not to spend as much time on them. :/. Still, we could both do some pictures for the project though, once i get a proper scanner on. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Jul 26 2010, 03:39 PM Post #8 |
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The images don't have to be perfect - they are there just to help give a better idea of what the creatures look like. Still, I wouldn't mind helping you draw them. Just tell me what you want doing and I'll give it my best shot.
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| Ook | Jul 26 2010, 04:06 PM Post #9 |
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i draw before some hour two animals,but i think they are wrong,better if you create some sketches how they look |
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 10:07 AM Post #10 |
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What do you mean by hourtwo? Do you mean period 2, 200 million AP? And don't worry if they're wrong or not, you can just send it to me and I'll check it out. I am not a very good drawer but i do try to be one. I will eventually get some pictures up if my scanner works. Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Aug 16 2010, 11:52 AM.
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| Ook | Jul 27 2010, 10:46 AM Post #11 |
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i yesterday draw one hour before this comment two of that tardigrades  but i add them some undescribed features,like sensitive antenna like features
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 11:20 AM Post #12 |
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Nice. I like antenna. It would probably add to my ambition to make them seem alien to Earth life as well in a way. Which two tardigrades did you draw? Were they in the river or in the ocean? |
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| Ook | Jul 27 2010, 11:54 AM Post #13 |
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just one swimming and one ground,maybe carnivorous maybe herbivorous,tommorow i upload it and show it here,but i think they looks too much like crustaceans
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 02:21 PM Post #14 |
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Ok, how do you like this? I am going to post 6 creatures for the river ecosystem now, including 2 new species. The first is a algae eater, the second the predator, the third filter feeder, fourth omnivore, fifth distritus eater and sixth, a parasite. Bexi, you can still show me your planned out creatures too, to compare them.
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| Forbiddenparadise64 | Jul 27 2010, 02:30 PM Post #15 |
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What do you think of those critters :D? BTW the parasite is 0.2mm long. Edited by Forbiddenparadise64, Jul 28 2010, 09:34 AM.
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