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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,334 Views)
GlarnBoudin
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Jan 29 2018, 10:46 AM
A project based around more realistic versions of monsters from the movie library of The Asylum, like Mega Shark, Sharktopus, and Sharknado among other groups. The twist is, however, like Icthy's Zelda project, the movies also exist in-universe, with the films being "ripped from the headlines" as it were.
Hoo boy. Trust me when I say this - Syfy has a lot of fucking movies to draw from. Everything from alien serpents made out of fire that live on the sun to cylcopses, ogres, and Irish rocs.

And regarding Undertale spec, the thing about that is that an ecosystem can't really work with monsters from there - not unless predators develop a lot of adaptations to keep their prey alive as they eat to stop it from turning to dust.
DT made also soem plasubile versions
No, he made plausible versions of photoshopped hybrid creatures. Granted, it's not exactly a step up from Syfy's usual fare, but the distinction needs to be made.
Edited by GlarnBoudin, Feb 7 2018, 05:14 PM.
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Wondering what you guys think about this...

An omnivorous, sapient gomphothere evolves in Africa/ South America and spreads to the rest of the world, and maybe encounters humans if they evolved in this scenario.

If this ever becomes a thing, it probably will be a few posts, so not a full project.
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This is based off of a convo with Sphenodon, but what about a worse Azolla Event? This would cause a massive faunal and floral turnover with the resultant cooling of the planet, since the idea would center around Azolla adapting to saltwater, and gradually spreading all over the globe, smothering the oceans and removing large amounts of greenhouse gases. Perhaps organisms such as whales adapt to eat this massive bloom of ferns, assuming they manage to survive this scenario.
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This is based off of a convo with Sphenodon, but what about a worse Azolla Event? This would cause a massive faunal and floral turnover with the resultant cooling of the planet, since the idea would center around Azolla adapting to saltwater, and gradually spreading all over the globe, smothering the oceans and removing large amounts of greenhouse gases. Perhaps organisms such as whales adapt to eat this massive bloom of ferns, assuming they manage to survive this scenario.
I'm sure that surface- floating plants couldn't adapt to take over the ocean, otherwise marine surface vegetation would already exist.
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This is based off of a convo with Sphenodon, but what about a worse Azolla Event? This would cause a massive faunal and floral turnover with the resultant cooling of the planet, since the idea would center around Azolla adapting to saltwater, and gradually spreading all over the globe, smothering the oceans and removing large amounts of greenhouse gases. Perhaps organisms such as whales adapt to eat this massive bloom of ferns, assuming they manage to survive this scenario.
I'm sure that surface- floating plants couldn't adapt to take over the ocean, otherwise marine surface vegetation would already exist.
Ahem.

Might I introduce you to Sargasso?

Also, ferns are less complex than angiosperms, yet angiosperms have made the leap to saltwater. If flowers can make it to saltwater, then I think a fern could too.
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This is based off of a convo with Sphenodon, but what about a worse Azolla Event? This would cause a massive faunal and floral turnover with the resultant cooling of the planet, since the idea would center around Azolla adapting to saltwater, and gradually spreading all over the globe, smothering the oceans and removing large amounts of greenhouse gases. Perhaps organisms such as whales adapt to eat this massive bloom of ferns, assuming they manage to survive this scenario.
I'm sure that surface- floating plants couldn't adapt to take over the ocean, otherwise marine surface vegetation would already exist.
Ahem.

Might I introduce you to Sargasso?

Also, ferns are less complex than angiosperms, yet angiosperms have made the leap to saltwater. If flowers can make it to saltwater, then I think a fern could too.
Sargasso and other floating seaweeds float below the surface. And the problem isn't salt, it probably has more to do with currents and/or nutrient concentration. Surface floating plants generally occur on slow flowing or still bodies of water with large amounts of organic matter.

The general concept of a plant changing the climate by somehow taking over the ocean might be plausible (though i'm not sure where the high amounts of nutrients for such a feat would come from) but Azolla is almost certainly the wrong organism for such a scenario.
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Feb 23 2018, 04:08 PM
This is based off of a convo with Sphenodon, but what about a worse Azolla Event? This would cause a massive faunal and floral turnover with the resultant cooling of the planet, since the idea would center around Azolla adapting to saltwater, and gradually spreading all over the globe, smothering the oceans and removing large amounts of greenhouse gases. Perhaps organisms such as whales adapt to eat this massive bloom of ferns, assuming they manage to survive this scenario.
I'm sure that surface- floating plants couldn't adapt to take over the ocean, otherwise marine surface vegetation would already exist.
Ahem.

Might I introduce you to Sargasso?

Also, ferns are less complex than angiosperms, yet angiosperms have made the leap to saltwater. If flowers can make it to saltwater, then I think a fern could too.
Sargasso and other floating seaweeds float below the surface. And the problem isn't salt, it probably has more to do with currents and/or nutrient concentration. Surface floating plants generally occur on slow flowing or still bodies of water with large amounts of organic matter.

The general concept of a plant changing the climate by somehow taking over the ocean might be plausible (though i'm not sure where the high amounts of nutrients for such a feat would come from) but Azolla is almost certainly the wrong organism for such a scenario.
Azolla already DID change the climate. That's what the Azolla Event is. A massive bloom of Azolla occurred in the arctic ocean, unchecked by any organisms, and dragged any carbon dioxide with them down into sediment, and kept doing so, eventually cooling off the world of the Eocene.
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The azolla didn't cover the world's oceans. The event could only occur because the arctic sea was cut off from the rest of the ocean, and the lack of currents caused a layer of still freshwater that allowed giant mats of azolla to grow.
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If it wasn't for these blasted weeds,se would still live in the climate of the recent eocenic paradise.
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A mini-project speccing on fictional species of The Simpsons TV series, including the Rigellians and Bolivian tree lizards.
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Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
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Harry Potter spec (somehow).

Also mushroom kingdom spec.
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A project in which xenarthrans evolve in Australia instead of in South America, and they diversify in a environment where they are the only animals living there. Later, humans will migrate to Australia and the australasian xenarthrans have been forced to compete directly with humans (if they ever reach the Australasian mainland in this scenario)
Edited by peashyjah, Feb 25 2018, 06:32 PM.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
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Not really a species per se, more of a concept for an oft-speculated upon creatures.

Monitor lizards are one of the premier choices for sapient reptiles, and it's not surprising considering their relatively advanced respiratory system, locomotion, social capabilities and intelligence. This forum is rife with lizard-people based off of monitor lizards.

One interesting thing about monitor lizards is that, while they normally reproduce via sexual reproduction, females can reproduce asexually during long periods of isolation. It is believed this is how monitor lizards got away with the biggest problems of vicariance events: more often then not, creatures that got caught in rafting events are alone and not pregnant. If you don't necessarily need either
to reproduce, you can easily spread to another island. It is thought this is triggered by a biological feeling of "loneliness".

Well, in the world of a society of monitor lizards, more often then not individuals are going to be with each other, and lifespans will be much longer making someone being alone long enough for a virgin birth quite rare.

In one case, you could have either a chain of large islands or a relatively small continental complex that gets colonized by a single female castaway who has a virgin birth. Out of this, an entire race grows to inhabit these islands, being extremenly genetically homogenuous, with a matriarchal religion and an extreme hostility to outsiders. When discovered, they attempt to conquer the outside world for the Great Mother.
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