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| Marty Party | Aug 22 2008, 11:03 PM Post #1 |
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I remember those interesting sketches in Nemo's resume, the ones with animals that have evolved wheels, and I would like to discuss the possibilities of sch organisms. I think that the wheels are probably pushed by tiny legs, or perhaps like a tattoo pen. Said creatures could achieve speeds that would shame earth creatures. |
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| CarrionTrooper | Dec 26 2008, 05:06 AM Post #31 |
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I require more vespene gas?!?
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Meh, lack of archeological evidence. It might be that there's some kinds of early cells, which then mixed and combined between the different types, and even more diversity followed. Then evolution kicks in and here we are. |
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| Cynovolans | Dec 27 2008, 11:27 PM Post #32 |
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I forget what the first life on Earth was exactly like but I believe they had a different form of photosynthesis than cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria became more widespread and dominant 2 billion years ago when there was more oxygen in the atmosphere. I think animals evolved from Flagellate cells, which are also produced by algae. |
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| Canis Lupis | Dec 28 2008, 12:36 AM Post #33 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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So did algae produce the plants? |
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| Cynovolans | Dec 28 2008, 11:50 AM Post #34 |
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It produced the land plants today, about 500 million years ago. |
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| agatharights | Dec 28 2008, 06:57 PM Post #35 |
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The Amber Spyglass. I forget what hte species in it is called, but they adapted to use round, hard nuts that are rather large as wheels, with specifically-adapted claws to make an axel for them. |
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| Carlos | Dec 29 2008, 03:24 AM Post #36 |
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Mulefas, I used that example. Do you like His Dark Materials too? |
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| ashwinder | Mar 5 2009, 07:00 PM Post #37 |
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Bit of a random idea, what if (a big if) a species was born with a large horny growth on its back which slowly developed into a large Hoop/tube/wheel like structure in the first few years of life. Once the creature reached maturity the growth would drop off (like a milk tooth) allowing the creature to climb inside and scurry around rotating it from the inside, somewhat like a hamster wheel! So basically a creature that grows its own hamster-wheel on its back like a snail grows a shell! |
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| colddigger | Mar 5 2009, 11:53 PM Post #38 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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why not just have a small creature with a semi-open cardiovascular system? one side of the wheel can have blood pumped into it, the other side removes the blood, and the holes could have seals (is that the right word?) of some fatty tissues that hold together but slide easily across one another? With this seal in mind you can have a series of arms laid out on the sides of the wheel that control spinning and support, even turning (which is a must) ... Or you could have a single base limb that two halves of a wheel grow out of, a crevice (or whatever the word is) that goes all the way around the the wheels edge, or circumference, instead of through the axis, so the wheel can spin continuously. Blood can be pumped to and from the wheel using this limb, of course that fatty seal is needed, maybe... then you can have a pair of limbs used for propelling the wheel, either on the sides or in the crevice. |
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| Empyreon | Sep 28 2010, 04:24 PM Post #39 |
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Are you plausible?
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TOPIC RESURRECTION! I found this section from this website:
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| Practically Uninformed | Sep 28 2010, 04:31 PM Post #40 |
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Informed enough to care
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I thought of something like this a while ago. It was a creature that possessed enormous shoulders, skinny arms, and huge wheel-shaped feet. The animal could drag its feet along, but when danger struck, it could hunker down, set itself on the treaded sides of its legs, and move its shoulders to turn the wheel. The wheel would be somewhat uneven to the axle, like on one of those pull-toys. |
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| Giant Squidward | Oct 22 2010, 10:05 PM Post #41 |
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How about the Polarians from Piers Anthony's Cluster series? |
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| Spugpow | Oct 23 2010, 01:17 AM Post #42 |
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How do the polarians work? |
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| Giant Squidward | Oct 23 2010, 12:28 PM Post #43 |
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The wheel is a hollow sphere held in place by powerful adhesive muscles. The hollowness allows it to just absorb nutrients from the main body. |
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| Scrublord | Oct 23 2010, 12:51 PM Post #44 |
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How does the sphere get there? |
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| Giant Squidward | Oct 23 2010, 10:40 PM Post #45 |
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It grows, than, when the sphere gets big enough, it detaches & sits in the socket. |
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