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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,433 Views)
ClassyAmoeba
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Concept: Life on a world, rapidly freezing over, as told from sapient species data files, after they got the heck off the planet. Essentially snowball earth but with land life.
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-Higher grav xeno spec, with radial, 7 legged creatures. Only one digestive hole, like the buttmunchers and sea stars. This include eusocial, termite like forms which live in cold areas. They have symbiotic relationships with several plant species, and farm a fungus thing.
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Nov 9 2015, 09:57 PM
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.
I might be able to help with that-if you want a really retro Venus, you need dinosaurs. And for maximum retrosity, retrosaurs are the way to go.
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I appreciate the interest. I don't know about dinosaurs though. The only way I can see that is with time travel, which is more or less impossible with our current understanding of physics. I guess you could always genetically engineer a bird or something, but I want to avoid anything Jurassic Park like. I want to keep the idea more or less grounded in hard science.
I was thinking that it would be a fun project in investigating both primary succession, as well as what plants, animals, and microbes humans would select for such a massive technological endeavor. I was thinking that a terraformed Venus would be a fun setting for some kind of Space Opera story. The current lack of any known extraterrestrial life, especially within our solar system, can be a little frustrating for a scifi author who wants aliens, but also wants to avoid FTL travel.
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No, no, no: I mean really retro swamp-dwelling dinosaurs.
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What do you have in mind? GM Komodo dragons? This could be fun!
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Right now I'm working on a speculative future of our world a million years in the future. It's got Otters taking the place of Seals, and Seals taking the part of Orcas.
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I think that would require longer than one million years to happen.
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Nice ideas, everybody.
I have an idea for a terraformed world very, very far in the future where all fauna are evolved from microscopic organisms such as nematodes and tardigrades. I have these images of giant, prey-constricting nematodes, or even ones with venom glands, and herds of tardigrades. I also think arboreal sloth-analogue tardigrades would be interesting too.
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What do you have in mind? GM Komodo dragons? This could be fun!
I was thinking more along the lines of crocodiles-they're more closely related, after all.
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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.


Are you going to do anything about the planet's rotation or no?
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It would have to be done- a 234 day would wreck up many animals-jet-lag doesn't even begin to describe. There woudl most likely be a lot less ocean than on Earth, so land animals woudl be the main emphasis. A tropical rainforest Venus (especially one with added dinosaurs in :D) would be a pretty fun topic to do nevertheless. So would the one with nematodes, tardigrades and other microscopic ones, though you'd need a very large time frame for it. My own Tardigradus project of old could help if you need it. :)

An idea I had was one focussing on a seperate East AFrica (call it Lemuria, Zinj Land or whatever else you want) about 25-40 million years in the future, perhaps in the same universe as my current Kerguelen project, again with remnants of African fauna that are outcompeted on mainland Africa. One idea for a creature I had was this: a giraffe/brachiosaur like descendent of the gerenuk. I'd been dicussing descendents of these creatures with Adman when htinking about Extended Pleistocene, though since he's dropped it, I wondered if I could include this in some distant future project. Here's my draft: Posted Image
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I tried to come up with a world were whales and even toed hooved mammals did not exist and odd toed hooved mammals, elephants and aquatic creodonts thrive, but I abandoned it almost a year ago.
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I've recently noticed there are multiple other candidates for extra landmasses or 'lost continents' made from abyssal shelves, that could easily have come land potentially. Popular and plausible candidates for this are Zealandia, Sundaland (though really an extension of Indonesia), Kerguelen or even an Atlantis based off the mid Atlantic Ridge. However, there are also other landmasses which could be used for island projects if people were to desire. The Indian Ocean has multiple large plateaus that could easily form landmasses as shown here:
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Ther have been multiple projects about aome land masses, such as Zealandia, Lemuria (based off the real mascarene and broken ridge plateaus), some greater Azores and even my own Atlantis and Kerguelen. But Afaik, no one has ever done a project regarding the largest of these, known as Ontong Java (Zealandia is made up of multiple plateaus do it doesn't count as largest), which lies not far north of New Guinea. At a staggering 1.86+million square kilometres in size, It was the largest igneous province known, surpassing the runner up Kerguelen by over 610,000km2 (which is more than the area of Madagascar). It's formation is believed to have caused a marine extinction event during the Cretaceous 125-120 million years ago. I have no plan of doing a project around a terrestrial version of this plataeu at this point, but if anyone else is interested, then I'm offering this up for them :).
Edited by Nyarlathotep, Nov 26 2015, 11:13 AM.
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i'm thinking a project of the world 10 millions years after the Anthropocene extinction caused by humans. I'm wondering wich cratures could survive it
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