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Topic Started: Aug 1 2014, 06:21 PM (1,069 Views)
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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

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I wonder why Evolutionary Continuum got so many views.
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Apparently less people like Habitable Zone projects. Strange... I find exobiology has the most room for possibility.
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Looks like the Habitable Zone was less habitable this past month.

I always considered exobiology projects to be more accessible than future/alt evolution because you don't have to know diddly jack about real modern animals and prehistoric life, just the basic principles of biology.
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I kinda like them all to be honest.

Partly because alt evo lets you work with events that could've happened and the fauna that results from said events, and future evo basically lets you work with future events and how present day fauna would evolve in those events.

I've only recently taken an interest in exobiology because you can create all sorts of weird and outlandish creatures with unfamiliar anatomy without anybody calling out heresy.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Apparently less people like Habitable Zone projects. Strange... I find exobiology has the most room for possibility.


That's actually kind of why I don't like it. The limits are just so extensive.

Thought it is weird for Future Evolution to win by this much.

Personally I like Alternative Evolution the best, and occasionally try my hand at future evolution.
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A good exobiology project sets its own limits.
"My recommendation would be to just draw things now and draw good things later." - Nanotyranus

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Yes, but it's finding those limits. Keep in mind that I'm going into eighth grade. I've not gone over basic biology yet in school.
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I find the Habitable Zone very intimidating. You have to start a world from scratch and have to make sure nothing in your project is too "earth-like." I prefer working around the animals of Earth because I don't have to worry about the internal workings of creatures and focus on their appearance, behaviors and ecological niches.
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As long as you have some knowledge in biology, you're basically golden.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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And astronomy + geography. Remember Inthril?
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We getting to August stats?
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Patience, young padawan.
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It's over half way through the month. It's usually out on the first or second.
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I could post the set, if many people would like to see them.
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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