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| Topic Started: Feb 15 2015, 04:50 PM (2,822 Views) | |
| ÐK | Feb 15 2015, 04:50 PM Post #1 |
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Our world is a world. It is Earth, a planet in space, the third planet in our solar system, the planet where living things live, the planet with people on it. But what if it wasn’t? What if our world wasn’t a world. What if it wasn’t a planet. What if it wasn’t the third. What if it wasn’t where things are alive. What if people weren’t. What if Earth without Earth? -*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~ ![]() Like nothing on Earth... -*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~-*~ Table of Contents
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~Projects~ • Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)
~Troll Man, Skype (15/2/15)
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13) | |
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| Troll Man | Feb 15 2015, 04:51 PM Post #2 |
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pretend this says something funny
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Isla del Mundo Perdido! Diyu! R'lyeh! --- Also can into [天]. | |
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| LittleLazyLass | Feb 15 2015, 04:53 PM Post #3 |
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Proud quilt in a bag
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Not entirely sure I understand. |
totally not British, b-baka! You like me (Unlike)I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess. Me What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Read First Words Maybe | |
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| ÐK | Feb 15 2015, 04:54 PM Post #4 |
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All will be explained in time : ^) Spoiler: click to toggle
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~Projects~ • Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)
~Troll Man, Skype (15/2/15)
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13) | |
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| Martin | Feb 15 2015, 04:54 PM Post #5 |
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Prime Specimen
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So glorious even Mars is amazed. ヽ( ͡°╭͜ʖ╮͡° )ノ |
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| Crookedjaw | Feb 15 2015, 05:41 PM Post #6 |
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Unleash your inner Sam.
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Great Scott Scott. You actually did it. |
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| Velociraptor | Feb 15 2015, 06:34 PM Post #7 |
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| Vorsa | Feb 16 2015, 03:14 PM Post #8 |
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Mysterious tundra-dwelling humanoid
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My Deviantart: http://desorages.deviantart.com/ Birbs "you are about to try that on a species that clawed its way to the top of a 4 billion year deep corpse pile of evolution. one that has committed the genocide you are contemplating several times already. they are the pinnacle of intelligence-based survival techniques and outnumber you 7 billion to 1" - humans vs machine | |
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| ÐK | Feb 19 2015, 06:31 PM Post #9 |
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Where is Earth? In Earth Without Earth there’s is no Earth where Earth is would be in our universe with Earth in it. So where is Earth in Earth Without Earth? That is a good question that will be answered It is the Hadean eon, a time in the past before the modern day. There are no birds. There are no trees. There are no frogs. But there is Earth, but the Earth is not yet Earth. It is a juvenile planet, a hot lump of rock orbiting around the sub-adult sun. The Earth is hot and molten. There are lots of lava underneath mountains so they become volcanoes and explode with magma so it is very hot. Lots of things would catch on fire except there is nothing to burn except rocks and they just turn into more magma so they’re not fire hazards. Because there is no fire ice from comets can melt into water without burning, creating puddles which become ponds which become lakes which become seas which become oceans that cover the planet in oceans. The oceans will become the cradle of tiny, boring microscopic life which will evolve into bigger, better, more impressive life that people actually care about and then will one day become humans (just like you!). But this is not to be because everything is all about to change. The HEK The early planet, Theia, collides directly with Earth by smashing straight into it in an event referred to as the Horrendous Earth Kablooie (HEK). The HEK was the result of Theia, another planet, striking the Earth when their orbits crossed orbits. Based on some calculations, the explosive force of Theia hitting the Earth was very strong and would have caused a horrendous kablooie on Earth. Perhaps it should be called the Horrendous Earth Kablooie? We may never know. The HEK When the HEK happeneded, the horrendous kablooie resulted in the Earth being shattered to a gorillion tiny pieces in a badass giant explosion that exploded the Earth apart. A “kablooie” one could call it. This meant that the Earth was no longer the Earth and instead became a disc of rock and more rocks that orbits the sun where the Earth would be orbiting if it was able to keep itself together. But it couldn’t. Pathetic. Not of all these rocks are from Earth though, some of the rocks are from Theia too, so the belt of debris cannot be called Earth. Instead, scientists have called this ring the Earth And Remains of Theia Hoop, or EARTH for short. But if Theia struck the Earth in our universe, why wasn’t the Earth there destroyed too? That is a good question that will be answered It is the Hadean eon, a time in the past slightly before were we started off. There are no birds. There are no trees. There are no frogs. But there is Earth, but the Earth is not yet EARTH. At this point in time, Theia is hurtling towards the Earth at a gorillion miles per lightyear on a slightly more direct course than ours. Why? That is a good question that will be answered It is the Hadean eon, a time in the past of the previous past that has just past in the past paragraph. Theia is hurtling through the solar system at a gorillion miles per lightyear, when suddenly! a small rock comes from space and collides with Theia! Because of chaos theory, this slight jolt is enough to push Theia slightly off course so that is now on a direct course with Earth, changing everything! Because of chaos theory, Theia’s altered course lead to a small rock being pulled in by gravity (while also going back in time) and causing it to strike Theia, altering its course and setting off chaos theory and causing the collision in the first place! And what of Earth now that Earth is without Earth? So know we know the truth behind Earth Without Earth, it wasn’t Alien Space Bats, it wasn’t handwaving, it was not an earthquake, it wasn’t a typhoon! EXCEPT IT DID! Over time, the rocks and debris in the EARTH begin to coalesce into bigger bits of rock and debris that never quite reformed as a planet again because reasons. Because Theia was responsible for the formation of the Earth’s moon, it is likewise responsible for the formation of the moon here because determinism. The moon here is identical to the one that orbits Earth, except here it does not orbit Earth because Earth is without Earth and instead orbits the EARTH, so Earth Without Earth is not without the moon but the moon is without Earth but with EARTH. This is not our world. Because the Earth is without Earth. But what is the world where Earth is without Earth? We may never know. Except you will. |
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~Projects~ • Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)
~Troll Man, Skype (15/2/15)
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13) | |
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| Dragonthunders | Feb 19 2015, 07:34 PM Post #10 |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Velociraptor | Feb 19 2015, 09:00 PM Post #11 |
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| LittleLazyLass | Feb 19 2015, 09:20 PM Post #12 |
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So it's... earthception? How many times can one say "earth" in an update? I never realized how good you are at humor. |
totally not British, b-baka! You like me (Unlike)I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess. Me What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Read First Words Maybe | |
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| Rodlox | Jul 2 2015, 09:12 PM Post #13 |
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.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP) | |
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| ÐK | Jul 2 2015, 09:38 PM Post #14 |
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There's supposed to be an update? I wasn't informed. |
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~Projects~ • Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)
~Troll Man, Skype (15/2/15)
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13) | |
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| ÐK | Jul 13 2015, 06:30 PM Post #15 |
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Life on EARTH You may think that life existing on EARTH, a disc of planetary debris, asteroids and other space junk in the shape of a disc floating in the cold, merciless vacuum of space, is improbable, or so you may think. Think again. If you squint your eyes hard enough, you can actually deduce that the EARTH still orbits within the Goldilocks zone of it’s astrological parent* star, the sun. (*Fun fact: the sun is the astrological parent star to everything else in the solar system, except for Uranus, which is adopted.) The origin of the term “Goldilocks zone” is a bit of a mystery, and scholars, scientists and philosophers alike have yet to truly agree on what it means. The most favoured hypothesis is that the name harks back to an ancient legend about a young girl named Goldilocks who broke into the home of a family of bears, ate their food and defiled their beds. It is believed that the Goldilocks zone owes its name to the character in this tale from the Old Times as the EARTH rests within this zone, which in actuality is the bed of an ancient Space Bear, who—if the prophecy is to be believed—will one day return and swallow the EARTH whole. Some choose to regard the tale as mere fantasy and hold the opinion that Space Bears simply don’t exist. Admittedly, no evidence of such a being exists at present, and considering the EARTH has been around for a gorillion years or so without so much as a peep from a Space Bear, we should be fine. Nonetheless, it is advisable to be aware of Space Bear preventative measures, with drawing an Anti-Space-Bear Circle around yourself being the most effective method of deterring Space Bears. It is speculated that this is the purpose of the rings present around the gas giants in our solar system, and experiments with regular bears have shown that the rings do appear to deter bear attacks, with the mortality rate of bears exposed to the rings after being shot directly into space at 100%. Spoiler: click to toggle Whatever the case, the Goldilocks zone is defined as the distance from its parent star that a planet can possess liquid water on its surface (as well as being the ideal habitat for a Space Bear(?)). What does this mean for EARTH? Well for Earth, it meant that liquid water, seeded by icy comets and water balloons thrown by rowdy punk martian-kids, was able to exist and provide some of the bare necessities** of life. But what does this mean for EARTH?! Exactly the same as it turns out. The many bits and bobs of space bits that make up the EARTH possesses an atmosphereses, and many have liquid waterses, which is very preciousssss (you stupid hobbitses). A good more have solid water, gas water and plasma water too, although these are functionally useless. Not like ice or steam. Those are crucial components for life. So with the right conditions being appropriately present correctly, it looks like the EARTH is just as capable of supporting life as the Earth. Or is it? Think again. You were correct the first time. (**Bear necessities? Coincidence?) The evolution of Evolution on EARTH So now we understand how life came to be on EARTH, as it emerged from the primordial soup at the hands of the creator through abiogenesis. But where did it go? Truth is, it never went anywhere. Life on EARTH is all around us, growing, evolving, living, evolving again, thriving, teaming and infesting. There’s also a great deal of death involved in there as well. It’s kind of depressing really. The first life on EARTH were microorganisms that lived in the pools of water present on the EARTH’s many bits and pieces. This name is remarkably misleading however, as some microorganisms could grow surprisingly large, some as big as a great dane with half a great dane behind it. Spoiler: click to toggle The next few billion years following the appearance of unicellular microorganisms are some of the most important in our understanding of how complex, multicellular life on EARTH came to be. However, it’s an incredibly tedious and boring period of history, so for the time being this section will be skipped over and will be looked at in more detail later (I’ll get back to this, I promise guys*). (*Read: Never) Moving on, a key factor in the development of life on EARTH is the fragmentary nature of its makeup. That is to say, life evolved on EARTH in extremely isolated conditions, spurring the evolution of wildly disparate organisms, with their forms ranging from cute, cuddly and familiar to outright alien, Lovecraftian, eldritch abominations that cannot be described in all decent sensibilities (But we can damn well try! Stay tuned). The unique habitats offered by the EARTH have resulted in the evolution of unique organisms uniquely suited to these unique habitats that are absolutely unique even in terms of their own uniqueness. Spoiler: click to toggle And so with that, what sorts of strange, mysterious and highly creative life will we see in the next update? Certainly not the organisms that make up the base of the food web and play vital roles in supporting the ecosystem, let alone plants. Who cares about bushes or mushrooms or whatever. No, in the next update we will be exploring the fascinating, original and untapped world of megafauna. That’s where all the good stuff is. Or is it? 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~Projects~ • Earth Without Earth; Like nothing on Earth...
~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)
~Troll Man, Skype (15/2/15)
~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13) | |
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