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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,415 Views)
Corecin
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Pea, put this in the species factory thread.
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Alright, so I was looking at some videos of octopi moving on land, and I noticed they have a tendency to place their tentacles under themselves and use them like treads, rolling along the ground like little squishy tanks. Could this evolve into some kind of advanced locomotion, either in them or in similar alien creatures? What might it look like?

EDIT: this is probably the wrong thread for this
Edited by Arachnus, Jun 10 2016, 11:22 PM.
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Jun 10 2016, 11:05 PM
Pea, put this in the species factory thread.
Okay.
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)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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How about a alt-evo project where the vertebrates never exist and also when the arthropods and mollusks are actually the most dominant animals while the plants are still very primitive-looking and giant-sized.
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)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Jun 10 2016, 03:16 AM
I just thought of this: maybe (Although I'll most likely be to lazy to do this) a sort of "more accurate" version of After Man, because, well, to many Insectivore devieritives.
Your own remaked version of After Man?!!?
That sounds great and interesting!!
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)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Thanks!
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For the love of Specula, pea, stop. Double. Posting.
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GlarnBoudin
Jun 14 2016, 12:37 PM
For the love of Specula, pea, stop. Double. Posting.
Okay!!
Are you saying i can't post in this topic anymore?!!?
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)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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peashyjah
Jun 14 2016, 01:19 PM
GlarnBoudin
Jun 14 2016, 12:37 PM
For the love of Specula, pea, stop. Double. Posting.
Okay!!
Are you saying i can't post in this topic anymore?!!?
No he isn't. When you go to post, think about what you want to say before posting. That way, instead of clogging up the thread with tiny, individual posts, you can make one big post that gets across all you ideas. If no-one has posted anything but you want to add to the thread, use the edit button on your old post.
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Hmm, an idea with for a crazy bizarre alternate universe that makes no sense has crossed by mind. Like, what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you-am-I-really-this-bored kind of bizarre.

There's only ever one animal alive on this endless plane of existence. Like, one individual. Not species. When it dies, a completely different animal is reborn from it. But, it retains traits from its ancestor. So you might have a star-nosed mole, and when it dies at an extremely young age for lack of food, from it appears a baby elephant. But this elephant has a star-nose at the end of its trunk. The something from the mole-elephant is carried on, to, say, a tunicate, which also starves nearly immediately. Something about the mole-elephant-tunicate is carried on to, maybe, a sponge, a mosquito, and so on.

It doesn't matter how horrible the animal is suited to the ecosystem, or how crippling the inherited adaption is, since if it dies in minutes or seconds the process continues as usual.

Eventually from inheriting messed up traits from creatures already chalk full of messed up traits you end up with crazy hybrids with features from across the animal kingdom. Long term, you'd probably end up with so mal-adapted creatures that nothing lives for more than a few seconds, but it'd be good fun for a short bit.
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Islander, that is... horrific, to say the very least.

I like it.
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Alright, how about this: an alternative universe which has something similar to non-newtonian liquids: a substance that behaves like a liquid when small forces are exerted, but like a gass when big ones act on it. In other words, something that behaves like water when you move slowly through it, but like air when you rush.
Imagine all the different bodyplans and lifestyles that would arise! The other way around - slow speed = air, high speed = fluid - is equally intriguing.
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Bringing (probably) a old concept back: about a time where descendants of the Chickenosaurus experiment rule the world. The project will look at how they diversified, kind of like the Dinosaurs did.
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A concept like Shestheria and Dys, another universe where every earth animals from every time period is brought in, the difference is that the planet will almost never change, like water does not flow, no erosion, and there can even be floating islands, basically almost no physics.
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Very found of those mashup concepts, like a place with multiple continents supporting numerous faunas (one with various non-therian mammals, one dominated by non-mammal synapsids, one with dinosaurs, et cetera) and then see what happens when they mix.
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