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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,331 Views)
LλmbdaExplosion
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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Mar 15 2018, 10:10 AM
I'm not using this, but a planet full of nothing but posthumans inspired by fetishes. There would be animalistic humans (furries), humans with snake-like jaws and extendable stomachs, and herbivores with large feet.
Aka the deviantart planet?



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When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




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A small dog
Mar 15 2018, 10:10 AM
I'm not using this, but a planet full of nothing but posthumans inspired by fetishes. There would be animalistic humans (furries), humans with snake-like jaws and extendable stomachs, and herbivores with large feet.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Genetically modified posthumans are placed in an alternate Earth during its Triassic, and their descendants rule the Mesozoic in place of dinosaurs.
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Mar 15 2018, 10:08 PM
Genetically modified posthumans are placed in an alternate Earth during its Triassic, and their descendants rule the Mesozoic in place of dinosaurs.
I think at the start of early Middle Jurassic would be better starting point for post humans since a mass extinction took place at the end of Triassic.
When life give you lemons.............Don't make lemonade!Make life to take the lemons back!Get mad and than.........Yell,demand and burn down their homes.




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Mar 15 2018, 10:33 AM
A small dog
Mar 15 2018, 10:10 AM
I'm not using this, but a planet full of nothing but posthumans inspired by fetishes. There would be animalistic humans (furries), humans with snake-like jaws and extendable stomachs, and herbivores with large feet.
Aka the deviantart planet?



I need an adult
Yes and yes
Projects I'm probably going to do:

Evolutionary continuum:
Currently unnamed project- takes place 250 million years after the extinction of man
Alternative Evolution:
The Sanctuary- The best zoo in the world
The Habitable Zone:
Sapients of the universe- exactly what it sounds like
Alternate universes:
A bestiary of the land of Hyrule- again, exactly what it sounds like
Ixuligaxa- A Sheatheria-esque project but the wildlife came from the orvadacian and earlier.
Café Cosmique:
Ultimate power- A gritty reboot of Power rangers, but not too gritty, some xenobiology and posthumans
The menagerie- A world where a team is formed to combat the increase of crimes by Folklorish and Mythological creatures
To Sum It Up- a bestseller in the sanctuary universe, It focuses on Rises and Falls, Trials of the century, and the worst of the worst
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A small dog
Mar 15 2018, 10:10 AM
I'm not using this, but a planet full of nothing but posthumans inspired by fetishes. There would be animalistic humans (furries), humans with snake-like jaws and extendable stomachs, and herbivores with large feet.
This activates my flight or fight response.
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A terraformed world project where the introduced species are the state Animals/Plants of the US states.
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A planet terraformed too early to have any carbon history, and therefore no fossil fuels, populated by human slaves and farm crop plants. Eventually the slavers are destroyed in an offworld conflict and the slaves are left on a young planet with no way off and a load of corn and shit.

EDIT: I'm probably never gonna use this ever.
"The only thing that would scar me for life would be pics and videos of hetero sex." - Flisch

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"though critising misseppls is hypcocresi on my part" - Archeoraptor

"You deserve to be abandoned!" - Arachnus

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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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There are many projects that try to make "realistic" versions of creatures from myth, movies, games, and such, but I've never seen one on the biology of Chiron from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Figuring out how its carbon-poor, nitrogen-rich ecology works would be interesting - or the cyclically sentient fungal net. There's the matter of the worms with telepathic powers, but that's hardly the most implausible thing seen in this kind of projects.

(Actually, Octoaster's idea could sort of fit in there)
My deviantART page - My other extra-project work - Natural History of Horus and its flora and fauna - A graphic history of life (also here) - AuxLang Project: a worldwide language - Behold THE MEGACLADOGRAM - World Without West: an alternate history

SpecEvo Tutorials: Habitable Solar Systems (galaxies, stars and moons); Planets (geology, oceans and atmosphere); Ecology (energy, biomes and relationships); Alternative Biochemistry (basic elements, solvents, pigments); Biomechanics (body structure, skeletons, locomotion); Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, digestion, respiration); Perception (sense organs and nervous system); Reproduction (from genetics to childbirth); Offense and Defense (camouflage, poisons and weapons); Intelligence (EQ, consciousness and smartest animals); Civilizations (technology, domestication and culture); Exotic Life (living crystals, nuclear life, 2D biology); Evolution (genetics, selection and speed); Phylogeny (trees of life); Guide to Naming (how to name your creations) (and more!)

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Natural History of Horus (19th century naturalists... in space)
Galactic Anthropology (intelligence takes many forms around the Milky Way)
Settlers from the Deep (a tour in a blind and slimy future)
Coming soon: A Matter of Time (a history of the future... all of it)
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Ok, I thought more about the slug world project, and here it is:
Tundragaia is a moon a little bigger and much more dense than Ganymede. The forms of life were placed by "external forces."
On land we have great gastropods, which in many forms live a very slow life, some reproduce like flowers-with pollen, others have symbiosis with green algae and are now sessile as plants ...
Of the great terrestrial animals we have besides the gastropods, great velvet worms that are herbivorous and walk in pastures. In the small terrestrial ninchos we have flatworms.
In the oceans there are sea cucumbers that walk in the bottom, hundreds of living waters, anemones and corals, besides great octopuses like whales.
also has a sea of Amoeba, as in Darwin iv, being a colony of amebas. In this sea we have echinoderms on its surface, like giant sea urchins, stars of the sea and dollars of the sea, which feed on its surface.
the plants are descended from red algae
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"A living paradox"
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colonie of amoebas =slime mold
also mayeb velvets would rule over snails in megafaunal niches?
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
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Mar 18 2018, 05:27 PM

also mayeb velvets would rule over snails in megafaunal niches?
sorry but I didn't understand
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Not sure if i'll use this.
but A world that is just an 100 gallon fishtank filled with a bunch of invertebrates, and the apex predator is also the only vertebrate, Least Killifish
This ecosystem is then left to it's own devices for 25 million years
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Okay, I thought of some kind of plant ...
They are tubes of silicon that in its interior has a type of gel where are located small photosynthesizing oranisms, that make the photosynthesis for this plant.
it has roots like normal plants to stock up on nutrients and stuff like that.
I thought the methods of reproduction of these plants, some simpler repoduze by spores for example, others have things like tubes in their bases where a derivative of this gel is located, but with the seeds of that plant, soon the animals to hydrate themselves; liquid and carry the seeds away. Others develop "fruit" or bags with nourishing gel, which animals like sucker gel feeds. some may have leaves-like structures but no photosynthetic function, but only nutritive parts with seeds for the animals to eat
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I'm sure this has been tried before, but I think it would be a lot of fun to come up with more alien/realistic designs for some of the organisms from the Animorphs series. Maybe even come up with a good reason (or even any reason) for Andalites to have telepathy, and how it works in-universe. There are a lot of fun concepts in that series (even if it is incredibly soft scifi, bordering on fantasy) that I would like to take for a spin.
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