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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,434 Views)
ForceofHabit
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Pretty much every possible version of the K-Pg extinction event has already been covered extensively in one way or another.
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dino-ken
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Another spec project idea I've had is sort of a more realistic Jurassic World type. Basically instead of trying to create specific extinct species - they would instead create realistic mimics of certain extinct groups. So instead of T.rex - there might be tyrannosaur mimics, and instead of Velociraptor - there would be dromaeosaur mimics.

Also instead of just dinosaurs and Mesozoic animals - they would create a theme park with replicas of animals from the Mesozoic as well as certain Ice Age mammals. And even some species which became recently extinct (the last 5 centuries) - thru cloning. Most of the Mesozoic animals and Ice Age animals would be done thru a combination of gene-splicing and genetic manipulation.
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Oct 17 2015, 05:09 PM
A project similar to Sheather's Serina where a small number of Earth species are introduced to an arid Earth-like planet that has little in the way of native life. Cacti, tumbleweeds, fringed onion, anolis lizards, wind scorpions, dragonflies, maybe some goldfish and fiddler crabs.

cool.

then Nea wouldn't be alone.
http://hyrotrioskjan.deviantart.com/art/Nea-map-557233454
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Nea is pretty cool, I've been watching it with interest.
I've also had an idea recently for a terraformed planet which has more ocean than land. Basically one big sea, with a few scattered islands. I might use this and combine it with my multiple time period idea. I could start off with some fairly large islands, Madagascar-size (more or less), so that there could be introduced land animals on there. But as time progresses, the sea level rises, and many of the land animals have to evolve to a more aquatic existence. By the time the project reached its final time period, there would only be tiny islands.
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- A terraformed planet with the introduced species only being domesticated species

- Another terraformed planet with only 100 introduced species, 50 animal species and 50 plant species, based of the species featured in the "Fifty X that changed the course of history" series

- A small project based on a zoo called 'Ratite Ranch'. Take a wild guess which animals it exhibits.

- Stories set in World War Two based upon the Temeraire novels (Dragon riders during the Napoleonic Wars). SE is probably not the best place for these.

I'm trying to come up with a project that is original, and actually inspires me enough to keep it up over time, unlike my other projects. If I happen to come up with one I'll pre-type most of it before I post.

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Mars, but slightly(understatement) more massive, and supporting native oceanic life. Then aliens bring native fauna there sometime in the Oligocene creating a second, more terrestrial biosphere locked in perpetual war with the native one due to incompatible biochemistry.

Dys, Darwin's Inferno: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5949354/1/



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Swagynubis
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i will try make a project topic preview here, because i not know if it is good enough to start a topic

This is Venus... an alternative venus on an alternative universe, in this Venus massive islands float on the upper atmosphere, they not have enough helium or hydrogen to float like that, but they have an other kind of matter wich is Whatoms these solids can float on gases... now the life. on this universe Earth and Venus life have the same biochemestry, both started 3,4 million years ago, both uses water, this is because Venus and Earth where terraformed planets, and the aliens who done the terraformation got extinct
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Myxini
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Oct 25 2015, 05:40 AM
This is Venus... an alternative venus on an alternative universe, in this Venus massive islands float on the upper atmosphere, they not have enough helium or hydrogen to float like that, but they have an other kind of matter wich is Whatoms these solids can float on gases... now the life. on this universe Earth and Venus life have the same biochemestry, both started 3,4 million years ago, both uses water, this is because Venus and Earth where terraformed planets, and the aliens who done the terraformation got extinct
I imagine that this project would take place in the Alternate Universe thread, right? This would enable you to work with a form of matter that can create floating islands, as well as the backstory with alien terraformers.

Having said that, Venus organisms wouldn't have to be terraformed to also have carbon-based life. Many projects in the Habitable Zone use carbon-based life for ease of use, and because of how easy carbon is to work with when it comes to lifeforms.
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Beetleboy
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Very interesting ideas, everybody.
I'm very happy at the moment because I have finally put my realistic mythology project up, over at the alternative universes section. For that reason I'm not going to be seriously considering any new ideas soon.
But for everybody else, feel free to carry on adding your own ideas.
And by the way, Myxini - you said you found my caecilian project idea interesting. Well, if you wish, then you may take it up - or anybody who's interested can.
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I do like the caecillian idea, but it might be too similar to the Ultrozoic.
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Beetleboy
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Possibly, yes. Well, my offer still holds, if anybody wants it, they may have it. I have enough projects as it is.
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Oct 19 2015, 04:01 PM
I had an idea briefly today of a world of organisms that look like cartoon characters/plushie animals, but for biologically plausible reasons. For example, they have large eyes for night vision or eye spots that look like massive eyes, and their chubby appearance conceals radula-like mouthparts and other predatory appendages.
You know, I've actually had a similar idea for a while, except it was a bit more limited.
Basically, it would be an alternative evolution project with a group of islands around the size of the Hawaiian ones in the Pacific, with prosimians being the major mammalian fauna, evolving into a variety of forms that looked a lot like muppets.
Other organisms would include giant flightless galliforms (Big Bird), large pyrotheres that evolved into elephant-like forms, and a late-surviving abelisaur that turned to a panda-like herbivorous existence (Barney).
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Projects where future life fully adapts to a new domain-sky, ocean surface, subterranean, suboceanic, space...
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Also, here are my ideas:

1. A terraformed world where the only tetrapods introduced are all species that, in my opinion, aren't really in enough speculative evolution projects:
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The fish introduced are fairly standard Atlantic saltwater and East Coast freshwater fish, but Lepidotes, Enchodus, frilled sharks, and coelacanths are also introduced.
The animals are given a certain amount of time to evolve (Probably about 50 million years, but I'm open to suggestions for how long it should be) and the resulting species are then looked over, detailing their biology and evolutionary history.

2. A future evolution world where cryptids either survive a mass extinction or are placed on a terraformed world.
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My ideas are as follows:
1. Life on Titan (Saturn's Moon) complete with an alternative biochemistry involving acrylonitrile "bilayers" and metabolisms based on chemosynthesis and some yet to be determined non-oxygen electron receptor. I'll probably add different genetic information storage molecules and protein analogues as well. Major locomotion could potentially include flight because of the dense atmosphere.
2. A terraformed Venus. Terraforming will likely include asteroid impacts to remove atmosphere as well as potentially nuking the planet to blast more atmosphere into space. Genetically engineered microbes would clean up the fallout (maybe?). Basically I want to create some kind of "retro" Venus complete with tropical rain forests.
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