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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,427 Views)
Troy Troodon
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If bats evolved hallow bones and a bird-like air sac system.
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- A universe populated by organic versions of common household items such as pens, rulers, scissors, hammers, shovels etc.
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DINOCARID
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I had an idea for a counterpart to the library set in an infinite grocery store. If i product is moved from where it was, burnt, disintegrated, or otherwise destroyed, it would magically reappear between three minutes and three weeks later.
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Myxini
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A world of vermiformes: I like the idea of shoving vermiform organisms onto a terraformed planet and seeing what happens after a natural disaster or three.
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That sounds like a cool idea, Myxini.
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Myxini
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Vermiform

I brainstormed a few notes on the previously mentioned idea.

Vermiform clades


The primary issues with this concept would be:

1. The incompatibility of these organisms in forming a functional ecosystem in the short term. For example, many phyla listed above have a large number of parasitic species; introducing their hosts would affect their evolution, but excluding the hosts would result in the extinction of the parasitic clades of these phyla. The diets and niches of these organisms would also result in issues; hagfish, being primarily scavengers, may not last long without large marine carcasses, parasites would have no hosts and be forced to adapt or die (the latter is most likely in host-specific species), and the earthworms... Well, with all the dead organisms, the earthworms might get along quite well for a while.
2. The planet upon which they would be situated. Many of the organisms here require dark, damp conditions, others live solely in deep waters, and in general the interactions between these organisms may be quite limited.
3. Finding suitable pushes for evolution and niche diversification. Many of the Vermiforms listed above haven't changed a lot since they first evolved, so it might take quite a bit of a push to get them to start radiating into new niches and forms.
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I may sound a bit clché here, but...

A timeline where the Permian Extinction didn't happen.

Another Timeline where The Triassic Jurassic Extinction didn't happen or the Jurassic continued.

Something to do with the Early Cretaceous.

Panspermia. With tardigrades, rotifers or bacteria and maybe algae somehow survivng a long period of time cruising through the galaxy and somehow landing on a suitable planet for colonization and somehow survivng that.

Some more Terraformed worlds, because making them and devloping is fun.

Maybe a world where the fish didn't go on land?

Hexapods or octopods.
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Two alternate Earths:


1) Alternate Earth 111 (Great Lakes Earth)


2) Alternate Earth 600 (Dinosaur Empire)
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JohnWarrenDailey
Feb 9 2016, 02:48 PM
Two alternate Earths:


1) Alternate Earth 111 (Great Lakes Earth)


2) Alternate Earth 600 (Dinosaur Empire)
Care to go into detail?
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I've had a few ideas floating around my head for a while:

. a future scenario featuring life in an ice age

. a world dominated by rodents (somehow)

. a fantasy world with various unusual sapient races, but with some bases in reality. Less your average realistic mythology though, and more out and out fantasy stories with a grounding in reality.
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Some ideas- anyone can use if desired:

- A world dominated by goldfish and/or coy-carp. Done in a progressive sense ala (though not exactly the same as) Serina.
- A world dominated by Triops
- An alternate Earth where the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up ends up occurring more rapidly and in an area with more flammable materials, triggering the greatest mass extinction in the Phanerozoic [it was at least as large as the Siberian Traps and the Deccan Traps combined, possibly slightly larger].
- An Earth where avians never evolved, and how that impacts the rest of the planet.
- A world where Australia, Zealandia, Antarctica and Kerguelen never split from one another, resulting in a huge southern continent.
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Jan 26 2016, 01:46 PM
A multicellular shadow biosphere existing in the isolated parts of the earth- the heart of the Amazon, the Marinas Trench, the Antarctic Ice Cap. It would be kind of like antimatter- life and mirror life were equal, but at some point during the Permian/ Carboniferous got outcompeted. Essentially a xenology project but set on earth.
Just to add onto this: it would include stuff like odd rains, Carcaras Tar, that sort of thing.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

-----------------------------------------------------

Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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flashman63
Feb 29 2016, 09:37 PM
flashman63
Jan 26 2016, 01:46 PM
A multicellular shadow biosphere existing in the isolated parts of the earth- the heart of the Amazon, the Marinas Trench, the Antarctic Ice Cap. It would be kind of like antimatter- life and mirror life were equal, but at some point during the Permian/ Carboniferous got outcompeted. Essentially a xenology project but set on earth.
Just to add onto this: it would include stuff like odd rains, Carcaras Tar, that sort of thing.
I like that concept; creating speculative explanations for Fortean phenomena is always fun. Fort's hypothetical orbital "super-Sargasso Sea" Genesistrine might also make a great Alternate Universe setting.

Speaking of which, this article inspired me with an even weirder idea: a literal "cosmic sea" of immense extent and depth, with planets and stars floating in it. Magical alternate physics would, as the article puts it, provide "some awesome way to make water really really deep but still water"-- that is, not have it compress under its own gravity-- and also keep gaseous planets from falling apart, and stars from boiling off the water. Many, if not all, planets would be habitable, as would the sea itself, with its own bizarre biosphere. There could be jellyfish the size of asteroids, and floating fields of algae big enough to swallow Jupiter.
Edited by Sayornis, Mar 1 2016, 10:50 AM.
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Myxini
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An alternate universe project based on the concepts of how our world worked in ye olden days. I'm thinking a flat earth with either the four elements of some variation of it.
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My current big project is a about if the Kerguelen plateau was mostly above water, preserving a portion of pre-glaciation Antarctica, though it would be its own thing as well.

I want to make it quite in-depth, covering all the living mammals and herptiles and doing at least some work with invertebrates and plants.

I also find that while I dream of unspoilt wilderness, humans help make a project more real, and help me figure out how stuff fits together. I'm going to do stuff on feral animals, extinctions, and domestic animals of the islands too. Possibly even do some work on the native humans too.

Obviously that's ambitious. I've got a fair few bits written but I kind of want to finish it, or get a lot saved up so I can release it regularly. Maybe even get some art commissioned.

But it's taking a while. I've just decided having the island's avifauna just be a radiation of pipits probably isn't plausible, so I'm having learn about the evolution and distribution of passerines and figure out what would make sense. Maybe even a unique group of passerines like Australia's Meliphagoids. I'm also hemming and hawing over weather to add Gondwanatheres or Caviomorphs. I feel like I try to replace rodents with Allotheres in everything I do lately.

Also I've just got distracted by wanting to do something about the Carboniferous where I live. We've got some neat fossils locally and it's from an interesting time, just before the rainforest collapse and when synasids and diapsids start to diverge and look like something other than lizard-y things. Maybe more Living Fossils or maybe something more original? Paleo zoo's have died down now but I kind of want to do something different.
Edited by lamna, Mar 6 2016, 04:58 PM.
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